Marble decoration and the terminology of British and foreign marbles : a handbook for students (1888)
Blagrove, George H · London : C. Lockwood · leaf 66
ngstthese may be mentioned the well-known Greek frets andsimilar enrichments adopted by the Roman and Renais-sance schools, and the interlacing ribbon-ornaments carvedupon ancient stone Celtic crosses, and often reproducedwith success in granite. Some of the simplest types offoliated raised… … Fig. 28. represents part of a carved truss from the foot of the ter-minal surmounting thechoragic monument of Lysicrates.Here, as pointed out by Owen Jones in his Grammar ofOrnament/ we may observe a characteristic feature ofGreek ornament, continued by the Romans, but abandonedduring the Byzantine…
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