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A history of ornament (1916)

Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 272

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rdy; it prevailedthrough Emilia and as far east as Verona, and southeven into Calabria and Apulia. The Lombards, a Ger-manic race by origin, introduced into Italian art anentirely new note of solemnity and somber humor, ex-pressed in the rugged massiveness of their churches andthe grotesques in… … Fig. 25J. Akcaded Corx-ICE, S. Mabtixo, Palaia. ROMANESQUE ORXAMENT into western Romanesque art. Among these were thearcade cornice (Fig. 252), long pilaster strips—flat,semi-cylindrical, or spirally twisted; the round or w^heel-window (Figure 253), the col-umn resting on a monstersback; the…

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