Lectures on the rise and development of mediæval architecture (1879)
Scott, George Gilbert, Sir, 1811-1878 · London : J. Murray · leaf 160
ich we find the stylereduced to its simplest elements, yet exhibiting a senseof beauty and a studious attention to detail which isquite surprising. One of the features of these simplerproductions is the plain unfoliated capital—such as thoseat Fountains Abbey—but which, from its simplicity, isof… … Fig. 84.—Capital, Ripon. Fig. 85.—Capital, Fountains. and Fountains, how this passed off into the roundmoulded capital which is so peculiar a characteristicof the English Early Pointed.1 The distinctive characteristics of the productions ofthe English, as compared with the French, transition,are…
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