Jackson, Frank G · London : Chapman & Hall · leaf 183
y they were crude, unfinished,and incomplete. The elaboration of these forms wascarried on in many parts of Europe far removed fromthe places where ancient Art had flourished, and so theworkmen of the revival had no examples to guide themin perfecting the traditional forms adopted. Theywere thus… … ROMANESQUE FOLIAGE. 169 instance, in the Anglo-Norman, we have leaves as onPlate XXXIV., Fig. 1, ay which clearly exhibits itsRoman origin in the rounded form of its leaflets, asdistinct from the angular character of the Greek.Now in this leaf there are a certain breadth andsmoothness which did not…
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