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A history of ornament (1916)

Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 411

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issance, in-stead of a lingering reminiscenceof traditions never quite lost sincethe days of the Roman Empire.Carvings like tliose on the ^Man-dorla door of the FlorentineDuomo {cir. 1399; Fig. 399) areevidences of the vitality of those1 j traditions, which the foreign GothicNI fashion could not…

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