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 62
!l 1 LEAF AND BEAD DECORATION. Its Inheritance. 59 tion here. The maker takes from nature his forms, but he bends them as he will, in order to make the vine grace the surface of the frieze. In another ornament (Fig. 36), the leaves are plucked and arranged to suit the artists taste. Or the oak-leaf… … IWIIIIIIIIIIIillllBiilllllililllllSllilillilaiUillllillllnili™ LEAF AND ACORN DECORATION. Of boundless fertiHty were these Roman architectsand sculptors, and their hands built with marvelousbeauty their inventions. Stone seemed like clay in theirhands, to be moulded into leaf or flower at their…
Church architecture
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