The decorative periods . 400; in France, 1500; inEngland, 1500 ; in Flanders, 1507 ; inGermany, 1550. The lingering Gothicand Mediaeval materially affected andinfluenced all effort at Revival. Roman motifs were seldom adopt-ed in their purity, or in a mannerconsistent with their symbolic sig-nificance, but were regarded princi-pally for their pictorial value, and sacred and secular motifs werecombined indiscriminately and frequently merged upon a Me-dixval and Gothic background ; this fact must be borne in Renaissance followed the Romanesque and Gothic periods,and bore the imprint of
The decorative periods . 400; in France, 1500; inEngland, 1500 ; in Flanders, 1507 ; inGermany, 1550. The lingering Gothicand Mediaeval materially affected andinfluenced all effort at Revival. Roman motifs were seldom adopt-ed in their purity, or in a mannerconsistent with their symbolic sig-nificance, but were regarded princi-pally for their pictorial value, and sacred and secular motifs werecombined indiscriminately and frequently merged upon a Me-dixval and Gothic background ; this fact must be borne in Renaissance followed the Romanesque and Gothic periods,and bore the imprint of the years of Mediaval influence. The Classic period was full of floral and animal forms—fruittied in bunches with leaves and flowers, festoons with flowingribbons, rosettes, candelabras, skulls of sacrificial animals, tri-pods, sacred instruments, heroic and grotesque masks. TheRenaissance elaborated the festoons and floral treatments, elimi-nated to a great degree the masks and introduced cupids and GERMAN KKNAISSANCE. ROMANESQUE angel faces. The acanthus was the most popular of all the orna-mental plant designs ; introduced by the Greeks, it recurs againand again in all subsequent periods. Sometimes it has broad,blunt leaves, sometimes pointed. Centaurs showing the fore part of a man and the hind partof a horse were much in evidence. In the Renaissance the cen-taur as well as other human and animal figures was introducedas part of an elaborate system of scrolls and acanthus ornamen-tation. The Romans often used half figures resting upon aninverted foliage cup. The Renaissance period took up this motif, utilizing usuallythe female form, arising from an extravagant system of scrollornamentation. Heads and masks in grotesquerie were muchaffected in classic Rome, especially the Medusa head. But onlyin the German Renaissance has much of this been ornament included the laurel, bay, and olive vines, thelotus leaf, palm, corn, hop, grain, oak leaves, rhododendron,
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