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A history of ornament .. (1916)

Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 372

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models, as in the Lonjaof Saragossa (Fig. 209) ; sometimes given a projectionof several feet, casting a broad shadow beneath them,somewhat after the fashion of the wooden eaves ofFlorence and Pisa, though far more elaborate in theirdetails of brackets and framing. Both types offer fruit-ful… … Fig. 209.—CoRjficE of Lonja,Saragossa. A HISTORY OF ORNAMENT cornices is their frankly wooden character combinedwith monumental solidity and vigor of design. Tombs. The Italian tombs already referred to as being amongthe earliest Renaissance works in Spain were of twotypes, the wall-tomb…

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