Cathedrals and cloisters of the south of France (1906)
Rose, Elise Whitlock · New York London, G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 284
ES. they seem only a deserted relic of an old-time art. Thereare sixty-six stalls, a canopied throne for the Bishop whenhe was assisting at a Mass, and still another when he himselfwas celebrant. Although these carvings are not as delicateas the best of northern work, nor as beautiful as those… … the truest architectural beauty.—SAINT-BERTRAND-DE-COMinNGES. and the reredos—unfortunately painted, but no less skil-fully cut from solid wood,—these are details which haveadded to this large, bare church, the beauty and im- 264 Gascony. pressiveness of a complete and well-conceived liturgicchoir.…
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