ome, a fragment of the original constructed by Laurentius Cosma early in the thirteenth century. The piece of knot-work, which so admirably enriches the fine letter on page 33 (Fig. 8), is an example of a more complicated development of this idea. It is English, of late twelfth-century design, from… … FIG. 7. design. Fig. 10 re- presents a fragment of a Roman marble slab, upon which is carved a design clearly imitating a piece of wooden construction. VI. Whatever the original function of design may Develop- have been, in process of time all its primitive the'deco s^n^cati°n became obscured,…
Decoration and ornament
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