The Anglo-Saxon House, Its Construction Decoration and Furniture: Together with an Introduction on English Miniature Drawing of the 10th and 11th Centuries |
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Page 11
... borders of the pages which had previously been masses of interlaced scrolls - gave way to richly colored pillars surmounted by graceful arches of rare designs . Profuse border - work took the place of the lettered page and with it came ...
... borders of the pages which had previously been masses of interlaced scrolls - gave way to richly colored pillars surmounted by graceful arches of rare designs . Profuse border - work took the place of the lettered page and with it came ...
Page 13
... border gives way to a plain but more lifelike drawing of some scene . The architectural surroundings gradually assume the proper forms of houses and cast aside formal regu- larity . The beautifully illuminated initial letter is ...
... border gives way to a plain but more lifelike drawing of some scene . The architectural surroundings gradually assume the proper forms of houses and cast aside formal regu- larity . The beautifully illuminated initial letter is ...
Page 14
... border illumination should , with difficulty , draw life in all its activity and freedom . No radical change could possibly take place , but in accordance with the usual laws of development , we find in all this period a union of the ...
... border illumination should , with difficulty , draw life in all its activity and freedom . No radical change could possibly take place , but in accordance with the usual laws of development , we find in all this period a union of the ...
Page 15
... border ornamentation of architectural design . The sides of the illuminated pages are adorned with beautifully finished columns , capitals , and bases , while the top of the page is ordinarily rounded into a graceful arch . The ...
... border ornamentation of architectural design . The sides of the illuminated pages are adorned with beautifully finished columns , capitals , and bases , while the top of the page is ordinarily rounded into a graceful arch . The ...
Page 18
... border may be designed with great skill , but for his interpretation of the different forms of natural phenomena and particularly for the landscape , the artist is still bound by the hard and fast lines of con- ventionality . Each and ...
... border may be designed with great skill , but for his interpretation of the different forms of natural phenomena and particularly for the landscape , the artist is still bound by the hard and fast lines of con- ventionality . Each and ...
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11th CENTURIES adjoining buildings Anglo arched architectural artist beautiful Beowulf body border Bowdoin College branches capitals Carlovingian Carlovingian school carved chair church circular buildings Claudius Cleopatra color columns commonly covered curtain curves cushions cut on Folio decorated delineation doors drawn Earls Barton examples extend finished Folio 14 Folio 32 Folio 67 gable guests hall Harleiana 603 heah-setl History of Painting illumination illustrated instances interior Irish band-work Irish school J. C. Dahl legs long sides manuscript miniature drawing Noah's Ark Norway ornamented painted particularly peculiar period pillars Plate porch portions probably representation represented Roman roof rounded Saxon Schnaase scrolls seat of honor seems seen separate structure serve shaft short similar single solid style supported surface Tiberius timber towers UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG uprights usually wall whole William of Malmesbury