Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain, Volum 1J.M. Dent & Sons, Limited, 1914 - 356 pàgines |
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Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain, Volum 1 George Edmund Street Visualització completa - 1914 |
Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain, Volum 1 George Edmund Street Visualització completa - 1914 |
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Pàgina 187 - 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...
Pàgina 350 - Few cities that I have ever seen can compete in artistic interest with it; and none perhaps come up to it in the singular magnificence of its situation, and the endless novelty and picturesqueness of its every corner.
Pàgina 136 - I have elsewhere in this volume had occasion to show how much the Spaniards borrowed from the French in their architecture. Certain entire buildings, such as Burgos, Toledo, and Santiago, are distinctly derived from French churches, and in all cases are somewhat later in date than the French examples with which they most nearly correspond. If we apply this test to Leon it will be impossible to admit that any part of the existing church was built much before AD 1250. The church from beginning to end...
Pàgina 94 - but still it is merely a good example of a class of work, of which other examples on a grander scale are to be met with elsewhere. Not so, however, the dome ; for here we have A rare feature treated with rare success, and, so far as I know, with complete originality. The French domed churches, such as S. Front, Perigueux, and others of the same class, Notre...
Pàgina 16 - The only entrance is usually through the screen on the eastern side, and there are generally two organs placed on either side of the western bay of the coro. above the stalls. In the centre of the coro there is always one, and sometimes two or three lecterns, for the great illuminated officebooks, which most of the Spanish churches seem still to preserve and use. High metal screens are placed across the nave to the east of the coro, and across the entrance to the choir, or "capilla mayor," as its...
Pàgina 98 - I have seldom seen any central lantern more thoroughly good and effective from every point of view than this is...
Pàgina 21 - 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 350 - It epitomizes the whole strange history of Spain in a manner so vivid, that he who visits its old nooks and corners carefully and thoughtfully, can work out, almost unassisted, the strange variety which that history affords.
Pàgina 191 - ... 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 323 - ET HIC QUIESCIT : QUOD : QUIA : TAN : MIRE : FECIT : VILI : SENTIAT : IRE : ANTE : DEI : VULTUM : PRO : QUO : NIL : RESTAT : INULTUM : ET SIBI : SIS : MERCE : QUI SOLUS : CUNCTA : COHERCE : OBIIT : X DIAS DE NOVEMBRIS : ERA : DE M : ET CCCXXVIII (AD 1290)* The tomb of the celebrated architect Libergier, who raised during thirty years labour the church of S.