Notes
This is a 1921 photographic plate book from the Fogg Art Museum, published by Harvard University Press in Cambridge, presenting museum objects for art study. The plates show Romanesque stone capitals from Moutier-Saint-Jean and Saint-Pons, and Khmer and Cham sculpted heads from Boston and Fogg collections. The carved capitals, with their dense foliage, figures and narrative scenes, offer a model for interlaced ornament and figure-within-block compositions, while the serene sandstone heads show smooth faces, layered headdresses and soft lighting that suit studies of calm, stylised portraiture.
