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A history of ornament .. (1916)

Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 267

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circular or diamond-shaped panels (Fig. 142),or carved with arabesques (Fig. 143; PL VII, 3). A 189 A HISTORY or ORNAMENT common treatment of the entablature was to run thearchitrave over the tops of the windows of one story andto separate it by a very wide frieze from the cornice,which was made to… … Fig. 143.—Upper Part of a Francis I Doorway, Toulouse. mentioned above. Examples are seen in the Francis Iwing at Blois and the chateau of Chambord. Engagedcolumns are rare, and free columns hardly occur at allexcept in arcades, as in the Archbishops Palace at Sens.A unique type of cornice, and one…

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