Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 430
architecture gen-erally—the exaltation oftechnical cleverness andartistic tours de forceabove finer qualities ofdesign. German Renaissancewindows are as varied asthe doors, and few among them conform to any Italian or classic type. Those,for instance, of the Bremen Town Hall (1612) haveno… … Fig. 244.—Window, House at DlXKELSBiJHL. A HISTORY OF ORNAMENT burg, while Fig. 244 shows still another from a half-timbered house at Dinkelsbiihl, dated 1543. Carving and Sculpture. German architectural relief-carving was based, aswas natural, upon the traditional Italo-classic motives,
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