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A history of ornament (1916)

Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 307

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of the magnificent bronze candlestick inMilan Cathedral. A very similar candlestick, at leastas to its base, is among the treasures of Reims Cathedral.Fig. 292 is from a bronze candlestick at Hildesheim.The fine chalice in Fig. 293 is a part of the treasure ofa church at Bergen (Norway), and… … Gold Cup, Bergek. The architectural styles, thus grouped under the gen-eral name of Romanesque, gradually passed over intowhat are called the Gothic styles. The transition wasnot sudden, but the change though gradual, was a realone: not alone a change of details or of structural prin-ciples, but of…

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