TYPICAL FORMS OF ORNAMENT 47 crafts. It is characteristic of the Romanesque school of design developed by the decorators of manuscripts, painters, carvers, and metal workers of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. These crafts- men, produced a well-defined type of foliage which … was common to all of them. Derived from the charac- teristic ornamentation of Roman carved friezes and mouldings it went through many variations of the original forms before its final extinction in the full development of thirteenth-century art.
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