Medieval Decorative Ornament

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Reprinted from a rare 19th-century edition, this beautiful book—featuring over 370 designs-depicts the development of English foliated ornament from the 12th to the 15th centuries. Its splendid examples of Norman, Gothic and other early architectural styles were taken from decorative stonework in English churches and cathedrals built during the medieval period. Most of the designs imaginatively combine floral and interlaced foliate elements, while others depict mythical beasts, saints and human figures.
The sources are stone capitals, doorways, spandrels, diaper work, brackets, bosses, finials, canopies, stall carvings, cusps, screen-work and other design elements that decorate small parish churches—from Herefordshire and Northampton to Oxfordshire and Kent—as well as such great English cathedrals as Canterbury, Winchester, Salisbury and Westminster Abbey.
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Fülszöveg

iVLcdicval 2)ccorativ€ ©rnament
cJames Kellawag Colling
Reprinted from a rare 19th-century edition, this beautiful book—featuring over 370 designs-depicts the development of English foliated ornament from the 12th to the 15th centuries. Its splendid examples of Norman, Gothic and other early architectural styles were taken from decorative stonework in English churches and cathedrals built during the medieval period. Most of the designs imaginatively combine floral and interlaced foliate elements, while others depict mythical beasts, saints and human figures.
The sources are stone capitals, doorways, spandrels, diaper work, brackets, bosses, finials, canopies, stall carvings, cusps, screen-work and other design elements that decorate small parish churches—from Herefordshire and Northampton to Oxfordshire and Kent—as well as such great English cathedrals as Canterbury, Winchester, Salisbury and Westminster Abbey.
Graphic artists in search of copyright-free examples from a great design heritage, as well as students of architecture and the decorative arts, will consider this book a must for their reference shelves.
Unabridged Dover (1995) republication of Examples of English Mediaeval Foliage and Coloured Decoration, published by the author and B. T. Batsford, London, 1874. 293 black-and-white illustrations on 76 plates. 79 black-and-white figures. 160pp. 8% * llJl Paperbound.
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