History of mediæval art . Capitals from Huyseburg. the columns were somewhat shorter and more diminished than hadbeen customary in the classic epoch. The entasis was entirely givenup, and upper and lower apophyges were not attempted, their exe-cution presenting too great difficulties for the stone-cutters of theRomanic epoch. Fluting was very rare, being replaced in thosecases where an especial richness of effect was desired, as in the por-tals, crypts, etc., by a decoration of the shaft with linear, floral, oranimal patterns. The most remarkable innovation was the Romanic capital, whichappear
History of mediæval art . Capitals from Huyseburg. the columns were somewhat shorter and more diminished than hadbeen customary in the classic epoch. The entasis was entirely givenup, and upper and lower apophyges were not attempted, their exe-cution presenting too great difficulties for the stone-cutters of theRomanic epoch. Fluting was very rare, being replaced in thosecases where an especial richness of effect was desired, as in the por-tals, crypts, etc., by a decoration of the shaft with linear, floral, oranimal patterns. The most remarkable innovation was the Romanic capital, whichappears to have been first brought into general use in Saxony, at atime when in the Rhenish countries the traditional forms of theCorinthian capital were still retained. It is unquestionably true 26o ROMANIC ARCHITECTURE. that the formation of the Romanic cube capital answers the re-quirements of a projecting transition from the circular plan of theshaft to the square plan of the abacus, not only in a more pleasingmanner than d
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