Prior, Edward S. (Edward Schröder), 1852-1932 · London, Seeley and Co., Limited; New York, E. P. Dutton & Co. · leaf 23
of life: it had, too, the painters glory, the composition of a glowingbrightness. One sees how our arts have lost the sense of treating architecture asa colour-picture : but the shadowy cathedral, and often some sadneglected old church, comparatively untouched by vulgar substitutionsseems aglow… … INTRODUCTION 19 meant. Here and there by chance preservation a chapel or a tombgives us the ancient treatment, but usually there are now only the crudegroiindmg paints, which were brought into harmony by glazings anddiapers. They are these partial preservations which have deceivedus, and indeed…
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