Ecclesiastical art in Germany during the middle ages (1873)
Lübke, Wilhelm, 1826-1893, Wheatley, L. A. (Leonard Abercrombie), 1835-1895 · Edinburgh, T. C. Jack; [etc., etc.] · leaf 53
The Romanesque Style. 29 of mediaeval art never stood still, this corner ornament was enlivened with the forms of plants, leaves, and even of animals. In general we can assert that the Attic base was formed steep until nearly the middle of the twelfth cen- … Fig. 23.— Base of Pier fr£>m the Church at Laach. tury, but then it became gradually flatter, and as it were shrivelled up, until, in Gothic times, it appears simply as a narrow band. With this flattening of the base there generally occurs a greater protuberance of the round ovolo over the socle by…
Church architecture · Church furniture
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