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Line & form (1921)

Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 · London : G. Bell · leaf 140

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by the long vertical lines of the sunk panels upontheir sides. In church doorways we may see certain voussoirsof the arch allowed to project from the hollow of I20 VALUE OF RECURRINC; LINEthe concave moulding, and their surfaces carvedinto bosses of ornament ; while, again, the doorway SmUCTuaAL… … is emphasized by the recurring lines of the mould-ings, with their contrasting planes of light andshadow, and the point of their spring is marked 121 VALUE OF RECURRING LINEby a carved lion, controlled in the design of itscontour by the squareness of the block of stoneupon which it is carved (see…

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