Some Account of Gothic Architecture in SpainJohn Murray, 1865 - 527 pàgines |
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Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain, Volum 2 George Edmund Street Visualització completa - 1914 |
Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain, Volum 2 George Edmund Street Visualització completa - 1914 |
Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain, Volum 2 George Edmund Street Visualització completa - 1914 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 229 - King," and such a work of art is the " Nibelungenlied." In the form in which we possess it, the Nibelungenlied dates from the end of the twelfth or beginning of the thirteenth century, but it existed in some form for some centuries before that time.
Pàgina 440 - I inn bound to say that 1 have now changed my mind, and believe that the attempt was only too well warranted by the facts. In short, the common belief in a race of clerical architects, and in ubiquitous bodies of freemasons, seems to me to be altogether erroneous. The more careful the inquiry is that we make into the customs of the architects of the Middle Ages, the more clear does it appear that neither of these classes had any general existence, and in Spain, so far as I have examined, I have met...
Pàgina 42 - Miraflores is a magnificent monument commemorating Juan and Isabel, which is thus described by Mr. Street : — " The whole detail is of the nature of the very best German Third Pointed work, rather than of flamboyant, and, I think, for beauty of execution, vigour and animation of design, finer than any other work of the age. The plan of the high tomb, on which the effigies lie, is a square, with another laid diagonally on it. At the four cardinal angles are sitting figures of the four evangelists,...
Pàgina 233 - French archbishop, who at the time occupied the see, would be of all men the least likely to sympathize with Moresque work, and the most anxious to employ a French artist. But, however this may have been, the church is thoroughly French in its ground-plan and equally French in all its details for some height from the ground ; and it is not until we reach the triforium of the choir that any other influence is visible : but even here the work is French work, only slightly modified by some acquaintance...
Pàgina 145 - ... style which marks it, but still more because it is both in plan and design a very curiously exact repetition of the church of St. Sernin at Toulouse.
Pàgina 80 - I have seldom seen any central lantern more thoroughly good and effective from every point of view than this is...
Pàgina 22 - It is not a little curious, and perhaps not very gratifying to the amour propre of Spanish artists , that in this great church the two periods in which the most artistic vigour was shown, and the grandest architectural works undertaken, were marked, the first by the rule of a well-travelled bishop — commonly said to be an Englishman — under an English princess, and who...
Pàgina 42 - ... figures of the Virtues, sculptured subjects, naked figures, and foliage of marvellous delicacy. A railing encloses the tomb. The whole is the work of Maestro Gil de Siloe ; and from the Archives of the Church it appears that, in AD 1486, he was paid 1340...
Pàgina 290 - Cataluna had many peculiarities, and in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, when most of the great buildings of Barcelona were being erected, they were so marked as to justify me, I think, in calling the style as completely and exclusively national or provincial, as, to take a contemporary English example, was our own Norfolk middle-pointed. The examination of them will, therefore, have much more value and interest than that of even grander buildings erected in a style transplanted from another...
Pàgina 141 - In this a vast number of pilgrims are introduced. The late Mr. George Edmund Street, FSA, the celebrated architect,in his admirable work, Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain, published AD 1865, in treating of Compostella, tells us, " If the cathedral be left out of consideration Santiago is a disappointing place. There is none of the evidence of the presence of pilgrims which might be expected, and I suspect a genuine pilgrim is a very rare article indeed. I never saw more than one, and...