The book of craftsmen; the story of men's handiwork through the ages (1900)
Bruce, Marjory · New York, Dodd, Mead & Co. · leaf 182
wood, the earliest recorded instance of an English craftsman using a living model was in the fourteenth century at the Abbey of Meaux. English architects, LA VIERGE DOREE OF AMIENS however, like their brethren in France, Flanders, Germany, and Austria, had long drawn their inspiration from Nature —… … of the capitals of the pillars are adorned with human faces representing sufferers with agonized expressions and swollen cheeks, some of them nursing their jaws in their 148
Decorative arts · Industrial arts
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