Identifier: handbookoforname1900meye (find matches)
Title: Handbook of ornament; a grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches, for practical as well as theoretical use
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Meyer, Franz Sales, 1849-
Subjects: Decoration and ornament Art objects
Publisher: New York, B. Hessling
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Wellesley College Library

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, the bodyof Christ and the Cross being often of different materials. Plate 224. The Crucifix. 1. Italian, 1511, silver gilt, the inlaid plates of the cross are rockciystal, Poldi Pezzoli collection, Milan, (Kunsthandwerk). 2. Italian, bronze, Certosa near Pavia, 4 ft. 4 ins. high, Renascence,(Musterornamente). 3. Italian, Bronze, Renascence, evidently of earlier date than the base. 4. Modern, Carved wood. The Crozier, and the Monstrance. (Plate 225.) The Crozier or Pastoral-staff has been the badge of episcopaldignity since the earliest period of the Middle Ages. In the West: ithad the shape of a crutch up to the 12th century; and it has re-tained this form in the East up the present day (fig. 1). Afterwardsthe upper end was curved spirally. The curved end and the staffitself are separated by a knob. In the Middle Ages: the curve isdecorated with crockets and inscriptions; and its centre bears figures.In many cases the war of the Church against the Evil One is sym- METAL OBJECTS. 385
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The Crucifix. Meyer, Handbook of Ornament. Plate 224,25 386 The Crozier, and the Monstrance. bolically represented by the fight with the dragon (fig. 4). In theGothic period the knob below the curve is developed into an archi-tectonic lantern. The length of the Crozier is 5 to 6 ft. Thematerial is wood, ivory, and metal, usually contrasting in the differentparts. The Plate only reproduces the upper ends; as these alone areof im)5ortance by their decoration. The Monstrance is a utensil allied to the Ciborium and Reli-quary. It is an expository vessel in which, since the institution ofthe feast of Corpus Christi by Urban IV in 1264, the consecratedwafer is shown and carried in processions in Roman Catholic churches.It possesses great varieties both of style and size, the height varyingfrom 1 ft. to 5 ft. It usually has a slender hexagonal or octagonalfoot, and a knob. Prom the foot rises a tower-like receptacle (turri-cula), or a Glory with a disc-shaped glass box in which the waferrest

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