Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 52
ce addi-tions in stucco),and a hundredother less conspic-uous examples be-tray this classictradition. The re-awakened interest in antiquity, never wholly extinct in literature any morethan in art, in the Middle Ages in Italy, is conspicuousin the writings of the immortal trio, Dante (1267-1321),… … Fig. 1.—Painted Details from Saist Francesco,Assisi. A HISTORY OF ORNAMENT St. Francis at Assisi seem to anticipate the rinceauxand acanthus leaves of the Renaissance (Fig. 1). Periods. It is customary and convenient to divide the historyof the Renaissance into periods. Any such divisionmust,…
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