Manual of ecclesiastical architecture. Comprising a study of its various styles, the chronological arrangements of its elements, and its relation to Christian worship (1897)
Martin, William Wallace, 1851- · Cincinnati, Curts & Jennings; New York, Eaton & Mains · leaf 338
independent.Any form was cut into stonefor ornament sake, anything re-minding the people of the lifearound them. The portals, there-fore, became a kind of museumof what the people saw and loved.Here is the most attractive fea-ture of the new mode of decora-tion. Everything was tried, allthings were… … ITALIAN RO.M.i^KSQTTB:PORTAJ-. § Portals of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries. Three modifications of the portal occurred in this cen-tury. Yet the ornamentation of all three showed a re-turn to the lineal mode, thus indicating antagonism tothat movement in the preceding centurj^, which…
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