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A history of ornament .. (1916)

Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 99

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laster-shafts (Fig. 27) were sometimes left plain,more often they were fluted, occasionally with the lowerthird of the channels filled with convex beads, as in thetomb of Lionardo Bruno in Sta. Croce at Florence byBernardo Rossellino (cir. 1445), and in the interiorof Sta. Catarina at Sienna (PI.… … (Figs. 6, 9, 18, 19, 28). Thistreatment, of which there were butfew Roman prototypes, becameone of the most beautiful andcharacteristic elements in thearchitectural decoration of theearly Renaissance, and persistedthrough the Middle Renaissance.

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