Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 380
y more ornate, richer in the play of light andshade, often more beautiful. All the details are on a smaller scale, and re-markable effects areproduced by mul-tiplied repetition.The moldings arefiner and more num-erous, the shaft-clus-terings more com-plex, the carved orna-ment more variedand… … A HISTORY OF ORNAMENT sculjJture was great-ly inferior, both inamount and quality. Carving. Its variety isequaled by its rich-ness, in the first twoperiods, cir, 1200-1375. The foliagewas at first of min-ute trilobes, perhapsof the herba sacraor water-arum, withglobular leaflets beautifullv…
Decoration and ornament -- History
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