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The bases of design (1898)

Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 · London : George Bell and Sons · leaf 60

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Chap. I. more intricate. The foliage followed nature tecturatrChl more closely. The figure subjects of the carver Basis were more freely treated, and dealt oftener with common life, with phantasy, or humour. The … effigies of knight and lady, or priest, became more and more like portraits in stone or ala- baster, the details of their dresses more rich, delicate, and beautiful. The maker of brasses showed a freer and more masterly hand, and greater sense of ornamental effect in the spac- 38

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