Romanesque Capital with Rosette

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Romanesque Capital with Rosette — Twelfth-century Capital with Rosette.

Artist

Name:: Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène Emmanuel
Dates:: 1814-1879
Country:: France

Illustration

Subject:: Ornaments & patterns
Technique:: Wood engraving
Format:: Portrait (taller)
Source:: Robarts Library, the Internet Archive

Book

Title:: Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle, vol. 2
Author(s):: Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène Emmanuel
Publisher:: Paris: Vve A. Morel et Cie., 1875
Open Library:: View record.

Description

Romanesque Capital showing a rosette on a background of foliage design. This twelfth-century capital is from the cloister of the Basilica of Saint Mary Magdalene at Vézelay.

Keywords: 1870s, 19th century, black & white, capital, Europe, France, medieval, reference book, Romanesque, sculpture