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Identifier: handbookoforname1900meye (find matches)
Title: Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Meyer, Franz Sales, 1849-
Subjects: Decoration and ornament Art objects
Publisher: New York, B. Hessling
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library
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e top; and bearsan inscription. It is sometimes decorated with rosettes, garlands andfigures. At the top is a plain cornice, on which an ornament, similarto the Akroter, forms the crowning finish. Although the Akroter andthe Stele-crest often have a perfectly identical form (Plate 105. 4shows a crest which might just as well have been an Antefix), stillthe style of the crest is as a rule more severe; and it is characteristicof a great number of Steles that they have not the striking palm-ette Centre, which the Akroter always possesses, (figs. 2 and 3).Very often, too, the crest is so designed that the sides are extended,to make a larger feature, (figs. 1 and 4). These Monuments, dedicated to the memory of the dead, showbetter than almost anything else the special individuality and beautyof Greek ornament. Plate 107. The Stele-crest. 1. Stele-crest, (Stuart and Revett, Vulliamy, Jacobsthal). 2. „ „ (Jacobsthal). 3. „ „ (Lart pour tous). 4. „ „ (Lifevre). 168 FREE ORNAMENTS.
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Plate 105. The Akroter, and the Antefix. FEEE ORNAMENTS. 169
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