Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 237
all other features depart in an equallystriking degree from Roman models (Plate XII, 1, 2). Impost Blocks. The Byzantines invented a new feature, the impost-hloclc, to replace the bits of entablature which the 209 A HISTORY OF ORNAMENT Romans in their vaulted buildings interposed betweenthe capital… … FiG. 2\9. Basket Cap, S. Apolijxare Xuovo, Ravenna. face-carving. The capital proper sometimes retained asemblance of the Corinthian (Fig. 218) or Ionictype; but was in other cases greatly simplified in massand covered with lace-like or basket-like patterns, some-times deeply undercut—the basket…
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