Capital from the lower arcade of the doge’s palace, Venice.
From The complete works of John Ruskin, vol. 1, New York, 1900.
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The Rape of the Sabine Women, by Reinhold Begas. Drawing by Paul Laurent.
From La Gazette des beaux-arts, Paris, 1878.
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Alfred Jacquemart, Rhinoceros.
From La Gazette des beaux-arts, Paris, 1878.
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Le stryge (The strix).
From The etchings of Charles Meryon, by Campbell dogson, London, 1921.
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Panel from the façade of Santa Maria de’ Miracoli, Brescia (1530).
From Historic ornament, treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament, vol. 1, by James Ward, London, 1909.
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Pedestal from Henry VII chapel, Westminster Abbey.
From Historic ornament, treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament, vol. 1, by James Ward, London, 1909.
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Phoenician war galley.
From Historic ornament, treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament, vol. 1, by James Ward, London, 1909.
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Lion coming out of his cage, assyrian art.
From Historic ornament, treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament, vol. 1, by James Ward, London, 1909.
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Capital from the choir of the church of Semur-en-Auxois, XIIIth century.
From Dictionnaire raisonné de l’architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle (Reasoned dictionary of French architecture from the XIth to the XVIth century), vol. 2 by E. Viollet-Le-Duc. Paris, 1875.
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Capital from the romanesque cloister of Vézelay abbey, XIIth century.
From Dictionnaire raisonné de l’architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle (Reasoned dictionary of French architecture from the XIth to the XVIth century), vol. 2 by E. Viollet-Le-Duc. Paris, 1875.
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