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Title: Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933
Subjects: Architecture, Medieval Architecture, Medieval Architecture
Publisher: New Haven, Yale University Press
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Connecticut Libraries

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itals the style offers a very wide variety. At S. Abon-dio of Como (1013-1095) are found cubic capitals whose na-ture can be best understood from the reproduction (111. 115)and which we shall find playing an important role in Normandy.More typical, however, are the elaborately carved examplesshown in 111. 112, 113, 116. In these it will be seen that classictradition has all but died out. The position of a head now andthen recalls the Corinthian volute, but in the main the sculptorhas gone his own way with an exuberant fancy, untrammeledby conventional forms. It is impossil^le to classify or general-ize concerning these Lombard capitals; the variety is well-nighinfinite. And yet even from the few examples reproduced inthe illustrations, the unity of feeling which runs through themall may be readily perceived. Doubtless one of the main fields of Lombard ornament,though one unfortunately now lost to us, was the painting withwhich the interior walls were decorated. It is impossible to 220
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