Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1912)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New Haven, Yale University Press · leaf 530
, and occasionally the capitals;and Lombard are the beaks of birds and the strange heads (111.141, 147), rows of which surround the rich doorways of the XIIcentury. Many of these representations, especially on thecorbel-tables, are frankly obscene, and yet such carvings, forall their coarseness,… … BUTTRESSES and naivete. Thoroughly Lombard, too, are the crude attemptsat statuary sometimes found in the tympana of XII century por-tals (111. 143). It is only necessary to compare these childishefforts with the contemporary work in the He de France to realizethat the Norman school was exclusively…
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