The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880, tr · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 65
me what they now are, that is, a kind of small erectionabove the level of the floor—piscinas, shells (vasques), or basins, recalling toour minds, though on a reduced scale, the primitive baptistries. They wereplaced inside the church, either near the entrance, or in one of the side-chapels. At… … Fig. 25.—Bas-relief in carved wood, representing a Domestic Scene, from the Stalls called Miséricordes/*in the Choir of the Cathedral of Rouen (Fifteenth Centur)). were placed at the entrance to the church, and generally assumed theform of a shell, or of a large amphora, when not made simply of a…
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