Smith, T. Roger (Thomas Roger), 1830-1903 · New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 108
buildings, where we should hardly dare to put it now, andwe cannot doubt that painted decoration was constantlymade use of with the happiest effect. Sculpture. The last, perhaps the noblest ornament, is sculpture. TheGothic architects were alive to its value, and in all theirbest works statues… … Fig. 30.—Sculptube from the E>-TnANCE to the Chapter Hovse,Westminster Abbey. (1250.) F 2 68 GOTIITC ARCniTECTURE. without a picturesque power, sometimes rising to graceand even grandeur, and sometimes sinking to grotesqueugliness. Whatever the quality of the sculpture was,it was always there,…
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