Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 433
thand importance were jux-taposed, vertically or hor-izontally (Rathaus atBremen, Piastenschloss atBrieg, etc.), and one sel-dom finds the refined deli-cacy and judicious dispo-sition of the carved orna-ment of the Plateresqueof Spain, of the FrenchRenaissance or of the Quattrocento and… … Fig. 348.—Carvings from Nurem-berg, 1590; Lead-Work, Six-teenth Century. The figures over the door- 336 ORNAMENT IN GERMANY way of the highly ornamented facade of the Piasten-schloss at Brieg illustrate the first of these character-istics ; of the second one could not ask a more emphaticexample…
Decoration and ornament
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