Marble decoration and the terminology of British and foreign marbles : a handbook for students (1888)
Blagrove, George H · London : C. Lockwood · leaf 63
eak. The tendency was, before the sixth cen-tury, to reverse the curve and incise the ornament; andthis incised ornament was applied, not only to capitals butto mouldings, to pulvinated friezes, and to flat surfaces.In the mosque of St. Sophia, Constantinople, completedbefore the middle of the… … Fig. 26. INDIAN CARVING, 55 of acanthus leaves, consist each of two splayed surfacesrising up to a ridge along the middle. The greaterportion of the carved work is thus as simple as that shownin Fig. 26. From an artistic point of view it cannot rankhigh, but it may be said that in it a maximum of…
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