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Plain corbels

"Norman (Romanesque) corbels often have a plain appearance" Is this statement actually true? The majority of Norman corbels I have seen are usualy carved in some manner even if only in a basic way. It might be safer to say that Romanesque corbels range from the plain to the richly carved. Pryderi 17:27, 14 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]


Stone

" Norman corbels generally have a plain appearance. In the Early English period they sometimes became elaborately carved, as at Lincoln, and sometimes more simply so, as at Stone. "

Which one? Stone, Buckinghamshire, Stone,_Gloucestershire , Stone,_Kent, Stone,_Staffordshire, or Stone, Worcestershire???

SiGarb 15:04, 13 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've moved the stone link into the hidden comment as the disambiguation link wasn't helping anyone. Note that the Old French origin of the word is taken from Chambers Concise Dictionary. In Scots language "corbie" means raven or crow, but that didn't really fit into this article. ...dave souza: talk 19:31, 31 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

"as at"

These "as at" comments, which the 1911 Britannica articles on architecture seem to specialise in, are very unhelpful. "As at Lincoln… as at Stone… as at Winchester" all appeared in this article. Both Lincoln and Winchester are large cities and must have many mediaeval buildings with corbels. Which building was the original writer referring to? And there are 5 places named Stone in the UK: exactly which building, in which Stone, did they mean? SiGarb | Talk 18:48, 7 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Removing images

I have reduced the number of images in the main text by moving the long, narrow ones to the gallery, as they piled up at the side of the page and overlaid the gallery when viewed at a medium screen width.

I am also removing the following images completely, for the following reasons:

This one is so detailed it is likely to be made of wood, not stone, and is therefore not strictly a corbel. Also, without being able to see the structure it is supporting, it simply appears to be an elaborate sculpture
While it's nice to have a Japanese example, these are also wood, and are at the top of pillars, not jutting out from a wall, so they aren't corbels as such
File:Badami Narasimha cave3.jpg


SiGarb | Talk 21:24, 1 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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