Karl Alexander von Heideloff - Medieval Ornament: 950 Illustrations

Four Romanesque column capitals from St. Sebalds, Nuremberg. With details of profiling.

. a, b, d, e: Four Romanesque column capitals from St. Sebalds, Nuremberg. c, f, h: Romanesque consoles from the same church. With side and profile views.

. a: Painted Romanesque frieze in the Holy Cross Monastery near Meissen, Saxony. b: Ornament of the keystone of a cruciform vault, St. Sebalds, Nuremberg. c: Ornament over a church door in Nossen, Saxony. d g: Profiles of various elements of columns.

a: Ornament on the portal of the Burgraves Chapel in the Heilsbronn monastery. b, c: Keystones of vaults, St. Sebalds, Nuremberg. d: Painted Romanesque ornament in St. Peters choir of Bamberg Cathedral.

Gothic architectural ornaments. a: Crocket from a church in Rouen. b, f: Crocket and leaf from Notre-Dame, Paris. c, d: Crockets from St. Lawrences, Nuremberg. e, g: From the organ of St. Sebalds, Nuremberg. h, i: Crockets from choir stalls in St. Lawrences, Nuremberg (15th century).

Ornament from the bridal coach of Princess Agnes of Hesse, wife of Duke Johann Friedrich of Saxe-Coburg, 1555; carved wood (very low relief), gilded.

Ornament from the bridal coach of Princess Agnes of Hesse.

Bishops crosier and cross, carved and gilded wood, from two figures in an altarpiece, ascribed to Veit Stoss, in the Germanisches Museum, Nuremberg.

Romanesque ornaments. ac: Friezes on the exterior of the former diocese church in Ellwangen, Wrttemberg. d: Capital from St. Germain Abbey, Paris. e: Capital from the Ottmar Chapel in the Nuremberg citadel.

Romanesque ornament. a: Pillar capital from the ruins of the Benedictine monastery at Hirschau, Wrttemberg. b: Pillar capital from the Benedictine abbey at Murrhard. c: Column capital from St. Sebalds, Nuremberg. d: Column capital from the monastery church of the Holy Grave, Denkendorf, Wrttemberg.

a: Late Gothic ornament from the leather binding of a missal in the church at Erlbach, Bavaria. b: Gothic leaf from the metal frame of the painting on the Mary Altar at Rottweil in the Black Forest. c: Late Gothic sheet-iron ornament from the lock of the former Tallow House, Nuremberg. d: Late Gothic keyplate from a residence, Nuremberg. e, g, h, i: Late Gothic iron rosettes from doors of Nuremberg residences. f: Keystone of an arch in the Gothic church of St. Jobst near Nuremberg.

a: Embroidered edges of an altarcloth, St. Lawrences, Nuremberg. bd: Pewter crown from a statue of the Virgin in St. Lawrences, Nuremberg; with details. e: Sheet-iron rosette on the knocker of the sacristy door, St. Lawrences, Nuremberg.

a, b: Crockets from a church in Rouen. c e: Wooden crockets from choir stalls in St. Lawrences, Nuremberg.

a: Low-relief wooden carvings from the courtyard of a house in Nuremberg. b, d: Console and ornament from the late 15th-century altarpiece (carved and gilded wood) in the Holy Cross Chapel near Nuremberg. c: Arms of the Haller von Hallerstein family in the Holy Cross Chapel.

a i: Nine late Gothic carved-wood rosettes from the choir stalls of the former monastery church of St. Clara, Nuremberg. k: Foot of a now destroyed late Gothic armoire in the church of the Franciscan monastery, Nuremberg. l: Profile of the above rosettes.

Foot of the sacrament house in St. Michaels, Frth.

a d: Corbels on the so-called Pagans Tower in the Nuremberg citadel. e: Pillar pinnacle in the choir of the monastery church, Heilsbronn, Bavaria. f: Romanesque ornament from the tympanum of the portal to the churchyard chapel, Heilsbronn.

a: Romanesque frieze in the St. Walderich Chapel of the Murrhard monastery. b: Romanesque rosette from the Bamberg Cathedral. c: Rosette from the choir of St. Claras, Nuremberg. d: Rosette from the monastery church, Heilsbronn, Bavaria. e, f: Column capitals from the chapel of Veste Coburg. g : Column capital from St. Sebalds, Nuremberg.

a d: Portal friezes from the St. Walderich Chapel of the Murrhard monastery. e: Six corbels from St. Sebalds, Nuremberg.