And now from yet another quarter ambassadors arrived at Lacedaemon: that is to say, from Acanthus and Apollonia, the two largest and most important states of the Olynthian confederacy.
Thus we have a wooden table leg: a dog springs upward, from an acanthus leaf, surmounting an animal's leg (No.
See also a series of fragments of an acanthus pattern in ivory, evidently intended to be inlaid.
Among them are large statues exceedingly well made, images of smaller size, and flowers and acanthusleaves gracefully carved.
The constant repetition of the laurel-wreath on chairs, walls, mantelpieces and furniture is very monotonous, and we miss the graceful curves of the acanthus and celery leaves.
The acanthus leaves on the lower parts of the legs are unusually handsome.
The legs are boldly carved with the acanthus leaf, and everything about the piano is as elegant as possible.
But the engaged capitals of the interior responds in the east wall, and the wreathed acanthus capital under the central arch of the ḥaram (one capital only is preserved) must be dated several centuries earlier.
Consequently we find at Sâmarrâ capitals inspired by the Corinthian acanthus capital, and among the wall decorations the Hellenistic vine motive plays a conspicuous part.
Another species, Acanthus spinosus, is so called from its spiny heaves.
There are two types, that found in the Acanthus spinosus, which was followed by the Greeks, and that in the Acanthus mollis, which seems to have been preferred by the Romans.
In decoration, theacanthus was first reproduced in metal, and subsequently carved in stone by the Greeks.
It had no walls, but on a base of seven steps, sixteen columns rose in a circle with the acanthus on the capitals, bearing a cupola of white tiles.
The Acanthus was a favourite plant amongst both the Greeks and Romans, who employed it for decorative purposes: its leaves form the principal adornment of the Corinthian capital, which was invented by Callimachus.
The Acanthus used at one time to be called Bear's Breech, but the name has for some unaccountable reason been transferred to the Cow Parsnip, Heracleum Sphondylium.
Acanthus is stated by astrologers to be under the dominion of the Moon.
Both Greeks and Romans made use of the Acanthus mollis in the form of garlands, with which they adorned their buildings, their furniture, and even their clothing.
He worked in true German style; wherever scroll-work and simple ornamental designs were required he mingled a variety of leaves and flowers where the acanthus alone had before been used.
Part of the entablature also remains; the architrave is ornamented with an acanthus arabesque in white stucco relief on a yellow background.
The shape of the acanthus leaves is not that characteristic of the pre-Roman period.
The lions were placed over the larger spouts at the four corners; the under side of the spouts surmounted by the dogs and lions was ornamented with acanthus leaves in relief.
At the corners of the entrances are pilasters, the Corinthian capitals of which have a striking ornament, a female head, moulded in stucco, looking out from the midst of the acanthus leaves.
The workmanship here is fine, the realistic treatment of the acanthus leaves being especially noteworthy.
Around the front and sides of the tomb of Naevoleia Tyche runs a border of acanthus arabesques, forming panels in which reliefs are placed.
It is noticeable that the form of acanthus leaf used is Roman, suggesting that Pollaiuolo had access to the reproductions of tomb inscriptions made to the order of Lorenzo de' Medici.
In course of time an acanthus appeared; and as it grew, its stalk was pressed back by the tile and turned round spirally under its edge.
Other primitive pieces are of a very pale blue or white, changing at times to a blue border surrounding heads with beards terminating in acanthus leaves and scrolls attached.
It used religious symbols extensively, but incorporated in its ornament a few pagan elements, such as the acanthus and the scroll.
With the acanthus and scroll as their principal units of design, they elaborated and enriched every form that would admit of it.
The guard of the second is strengthened by two branches; the pommel is facetted; and the steel hilt decorated with vertical lines in damascene work, alternating with acanthus leaves (plate 170).
Over the skull-piece, and parallel with a beautiful laurelled comb, run two wide bands of gold damascening that meet over the brow in a fantastic face in relief, surrounded by acanthus leaves and volutes; the visor is also damascened.
On the level ground the acanthus grows delicately, I might almost say transparently.
Below them was a wild confusion of brush-wood and creepers; ivy, periwinkle and acanthus entangled the giants of the wood with an inextricable network.
The eaves of the pediment are supported by brackets with acanthus leaves.
Round the top of the building as well as of the towers extends a balustrade of stiff sculpture resembling acanthus leaves.
Tables of Empire design often have brass feet and lyre supports, while others show the rope carving and acanthus leaf.
We may therefore conclude that the leaves of Acanthus circumnutate periodically, falling in the morning and rising in the afternoon and night.
In the genus Acanthus the cotyledons are likewise hypogean.
We have met with only one exception, and that only a partial one, namely, with the petioles of the two first leaves of Acanthus candelabrum.
Accomplishments are ornamental, yet they are only the acanthus that decorates the pillar, not the pillar itself.
Since that time, wherever pillars are used in architecture, one does not have far to look to find acanthus leaves carved upon them.
In wild freedom it climbs over the carved acanthusleaves of the crumbling columns, And weaves a funeral wreath over their dead beauty.
The carved acanthus leaves upon the column were beautiful because of their symmetry, harmony of light and shade and clear-cut outline, but the wild grape was perhaps more beautiful still in its natural freedom.
Proudly each column in the stately row Its crown of beauty wears; the sunbeams die Among acanthus leaves that nestling lie Where they were carved two thousand years ago.
England and Spain, in the Renaissance buildings scattered throughout the world, and even in the most modern office-buildings of our great cities, this decoration of acanthus is to be found.
She is sitting on a stump entwined with ivy; around its roots the wild acanthus spreads its beautiful leaves.
We lunched in the temple of Neptune, and I gathered again the acanthus and wild flowers.
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