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C a r vin c Traditional Foliace

Fic. 6.4 Copy offijteenth-century vine leaf running band. Carved in oab by Ashley Sands.

leaf supporters on miscricords as wcll as stone carving tell che story (Fig 6.4). Lace fifteenth-ccncury leaves sometimes give che illusion of bulbous foliage, alrhough the leaves are in Iow relief by che simple expedicnr of having the ribs snake across the fiattened leaf when viewed straight on instead of from the side (Fig 6.5). These ripples are sotnetiines heavily undercut to give an added idea of depth. The savings in thickncss of rimber and labour are obvious.

The Sixteenth Century

Hints of the Renaissance appeared in ornament in Britain early in the sixteench century soon after the rediscovery of Greek and Roman ideas and art had changed the fashion in Italy. The acanthus and other new leaves and plants appeared. Forms became morÄ™ delicate. The ‘Roman scroll’ became popular. In this, stems with leaves springing from them move from inside a central static flower or leaf motif into a spiral terminating at its centre with a fantastic flower which spills a tcndril or weird fruit. Another motif on panels was a long, thin, usually vertical> stem with slender leavcs growing symmetrically out from it and curlicucs sprouting leafy grotcsque heads, dolphins, birds or other objeets. Unless cxccuted by foreigners, however, British work lacked the delicacy of French and Italian.

PROTESTANTISM, PURITANISM AND THE R.ESTORATION OF

the Monarchy

The Reformation and the Dissolution of the monasterics descroyed or dissipated into private ownership much ornament and art in the

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