Green Man

Leaf mask is decorated in architecture. The Bauornament is usually a face, his hair and beard is made of akanthusartigen leaf shapes, but it can also be composed exclusively of leaves and thus introduce only the illusion of a face. The sheet mask comes from the Roman period around the 1st century BC and found in Germany their most famous expression in the right Konsolstein the Bamberg Rider. From this period (first half of the 13th century ) also shows a representation of both variants in Bauhütte book of Villard de Honnecourt are obtained. Sheet masks can be found to the Renaissance and live in the French and German Romanticism on again. However, you enter into the Baroque period and in the period of Mannerism to only rarely.

Sheet masks can be found on brackets, capitals, keystones and clasps, but also in choir stalls and in manuscripts in the Middle Ages.