THE DEVELOPMENT OF 48 A detail of the decoration of a vault of the Church of Saint-Julien at Petit- Quevilly, near Rouen (see Fig. 27), is an example of a painter's use of the same kind of foliage, and Fig. 28 shows another form of the type in a decorated initial letter from the Winchester Bible.… … FIG. 28. stone capitals of this form, one in which the carver is coming to the assistance of the painter and lightly cutting out the ornament which it had hitherto been customary to express by means of paint alone upon these flat-sided capitals. IV. In addition to such ornament as that described…
Decoration and ornament
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