Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 119
actice it isso conventionalized as generally to defy identificationwith any particular plant, and varies from such simplefive-leaved blossoms as those shown in Fig. 6 to the 71 A HISTORY OF ORNAMENT most elaborate compositions of acanthus leaves or ofanthemions as in Fig. 8. The Festoon or SwEig.… … AKE2I0- FUjL.FOiSOM&FtONl Fig. 53.—Detail from Fossombroni Palace, Arezzo. bolizing the victims of previous sacrifices, and boundwith ribbons or fillets with fluttering ends (Hist, ofOrn., I, Fig. 186). This motive the Renaissance trans-ferred to Christian funereal symbolism, omitting…
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