Prior, Edward S. (Edward Schröder), 1852-1932 · London : G. Bell and Sons · leaf 285
century art its sculpturesque dis-tinction. Turning to the capital the sanie mounting path of sculpturesqueexpression and the same declensions can be traced. In the last yearsof the twelfth century the myriad fancies of spray and crocket motiveshad amalgamated into a typical early English form,… … 198. WESTMINSTER Al:EEV. CAPITAL IN (JUIRIC. This is done in the plain moulded capital with a wonderful sim-plicity. If the habit of Purbeck mason-craft was the parent of thisform in the South, the Cistercian art of the North found such construc-tional sculpturing to its fancy, for especially…
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