Lectures on the rise and development of mediæval architecture (1879)
Scott, George Gilbert, Sir, 1811-1878 · London : J. Murray · leaf 104
hand to offer models.The Romanesque capitals of earlier date are, in manycases, of types belonging to no other style, though inothers they betray a distant descent from the Roman ;and the cushion capital, and perhaps others, seemderived from Byzantium; but generally their forms differmuch from the… … Fig- 19.—Roman Acanthus fromFig. i8.-Greek Acanthus, from the Choragic thg Temple of MaR5> ukor> Monument to Lysicrates, Athens. same Greek leafage being found in cornices (Fig. 21),scroll-work (Fig. 20), and almost every other positionin which it could be used. Not having travelled inthe…
Architecture, Medieval · Architecture, Gothic
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