Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 247
thus-anthemions, as in Fig.225, a from Hagia Sophia. In later work, especially inItaly where Lombard influencemay account for it, monsters andgrotesques sometimes appear. Itis curious to note how often pea-cocks (as in Figure 229; PlateXII, 9), lions or monsters, even griffins, as in the exam-ple… … Fig. 238. Detail ofCross in Fig. 235. Guilloches and Interlace. The Byzantine artists expanded the ap-plications of the Greek guilloche-motiveinto a whole system of interlaced patterns,in which squares, lozenges and circles,large and small, are combined with greatvariety and ingenuity. The more…
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