Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 300
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… … Fig. 284. Capitals fbosi Gernrode. achievements were in the Rhine provinces, where a trulysplendid style of church architecture grew up in thellth-13th centuries, in which the ornament is remark-able for its admirable propriety and its force and rich-ness of design. It would be hard to find better…
Decoration and ornament -- History
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