Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 299
shrine is later.The Celtic crosses serving as grave stones—particu-larly the so-called high crosses present the best ex-amples of Irish stone-carving. The cross-arms are con-nected by a circle, and the angles between them cut intoby curved notches; the flat faces and often the sides ofthe stone are… … Fig. 283. Oxe Quarter OF Cover of Molaise Gospels. 272 ROMANESQUE ORNAMENT German Romanesque Ornament. In Germany, as in France and England, architecturaldecoration may be said to have its real beginning in theeleventh century, the earlier works being crude and al-most bare of ornament. The…
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