Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1909)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New York, The Baker and Taylor Company · leaf 182
ury, they commenced to assume the most graceful forms. After this the naturalistic types came little by little to re-place the acanthus, though the latter long persisted, often variedin a beautiful and striking manner, as in certain capitals of thesouth transept of Soissons (111. 207). Even in… … III. 191. — Facade of St. Denis MURAL PAINTING the curled leaves which replace the ancient volutes. In thisNoyon capital besides the four leaves, whose ends support thecorners of the abacus and hence acquire a structural signifi-cance, four other similar leaves are added in the center of eachface…
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