evice is again found upon a carved stone capital on the West front of the Cathedral of Saint-Pierre at Angouleme, of about the same date (Fig. 48). Here the birds' heads have completely disappeared, new forms being substituted ; the whole has still great resemblance to the last example, but it is… … FIG. 49. years in time. There is little doubt that the design originated in Mesopotamia and that its wide diffusion in the West was due to the importation and imitation of Eastern works of art. But it is another series of patterns that have been XIII. most instrumental in rendering the modern…
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