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A history of ornament (1916)

Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 306

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Fig. 291. Details of Candelabrum,Milan Cathedral. ROMANESQUE ORNAMENT from a choir) of perhaps the twelfth century, in whichthe character of the earher art still appears. Romanesque Metal Work. It is difficult to assign precise national limits to someof the phases of metal work of the Romanesque… … Fig. 292. Detail, Chandelier at Hildesheiji. especially in the line of ecclesiastical gold and silver andsilver-gilt copper. Some of this work found in Westernchurches was undoubtedly from the Constantinopleworkshops—e.g., the famous Pala dOro or jeweledgolden altarpiece of St. JNIarks, Venice. The…

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