Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 244
(above) ; and RixceauFROM Bishops. viving in Roman carvings and mosaics (compareFig. 225 with Fig. 135). What makes this rever-sion the more interesting is that most of these Byzantineanthemions are really acanthus leaves in disguise, asmay be seen by comparing them with unmistakableacanthus leaves… … rig2^9 Peacock Fbnel Torcetb Fig. ^SO Interlace (Mian). BYZANTINE ORNAMENT with it much as the Greek pottery-painters had donewith the antheniion and pahnette, nearly or quite a thou-sand years earher. The Rinceau. This has ah-eady been alluded to. The friezes fromSt. Sergius (Fig. 220) and St.…
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