Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy . hree capitals from S. Hughs work at Lincoln,which are quite free from any trace of Romanesqueinfluence, and are designed on quite original lines, unlikeany French sculpture. Except at Bayeux, where English Earlyinfluence might be expected2, I know no example of foikgethis kind of foliage across the channel. It is difficult to 1 There is a much stronger resemblance between Lincoln and Holyroodthan between it and Canterbury. Holyrood is illustrated in Spring (lindensSketch Book, vol. I. 2 v. sup. p. 144. 208 EARLY ENGLISH [CH. XII Early English
Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy . hree capitals from S. Hughs work at Lincoln,which are quite free from any trace of Romanesqueinfluence, and are designed on quite original lines, unlikeany French sculpture. Except at Bayeux, where English Earlyinfluence might be expected2, I know no example of foikgethis kind of foliage across the channel. It is difficult to 1 There is a much stronger resemblance between Lincoln and Holyroodthan between it and Canterbury. Holyrood is illustrated in Spring (lindensSketch Book, vol. I. 2 v. sup. p. 144. 208 EARLY ENGLISH [CH. XII Early English foliage say on what natural leaf it is based : clover, or scurvygrass, or columbine, may have given the suggestion, butit is severely abstracted and conventional, and imitatesnone of them exactly. With this leaf the carver playedfor some seventy or eighty years, producing capitals ofinfinite variety and consummate grace, expressing withtruth by their springing upright lines below the curlingknots of foliage the function of the capital as a member. Fig. 86. ^*S*i
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