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A history of ornament (1916)

Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 400

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Figure 382). Spanish Gothic Ornament. JNIedieval Christian art in Spainwas subject to diverse influences,which prevented a homogeneousorganic development of style, buthelped to impart to it a highlypicturesque character. The con-temporary ^Moorish art stimulated the tendency towardssurface… … Fig. 3S1. Glk.max LateGothic Carvixg, A HISTORY OF ORNAMENT produced, in the fifteenth century especially, composi-tions of extraordinary and fantastic ricliness (Figure384). Spanish Gothic ornament is especially rich about thedoorways of churches and in the arcades of cloisters andpatios of the…

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