. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. Capitals at the Church St. Germain des Pres. ornament. This second system, like the first, owes its origin to antiquity. The Etruscans often mixed up the heads of men with foliage in their capitals;* the Romans introduced persons on foot, of whicn a fine example is to be found in St. Lawrence without the Walls. Without leaving France, ancient examples are to be found of this mode of decoration, as at Vienne in Dauphiny, where on a beautiful Corinthian marble capital of large
. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. Capitals at the Church St. Germain des Pres. ornament. This second system, like the first, owes its origin to antiquity. The Etruscans often mixed up the heads of men with foliage in their capitals;* the Romans introduced persons on foot, of whicn a fine example is to be found in St. Lawrence without the Walls. Without leaving France, ancient examples are to be found of this mode of decoration, as at Vienne in Dauphiny, where on a beautiful Corinthian marble capital of large proportion, are four heads of Pagan divinities. The Museum of the same city contains a fragment seem- ingly rather later, and in which are also figures and animals in the midst of foliage. A Medusa's head is in the middle, two serpents in- tertwined form the volutes, which rest on large acanthus leaves. The church of St. Germain des Pres shows the whole progress of the sys- tem, some of the capitals being covered with historical and religious subjects. (Vide Fig. 2.) The royal vault in the subterranean church of St. Denis, is decorated with purely historical capitals, representing kings of France, bishops removing relics, &c. (Vide Fig. 3.) Fig. 3. Fig. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original London : [William Laxton]
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