Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 157
s much more easily distinguished from a contemporaryFrench or German one than an example from the first or secondperiod. The distinctive features are :—■ 1. The diminished significance of the leads, which are divorcedfrom the design more than ever before. 2. The increased pictorial quality of the… … FIG. 2^/.—COVE OF ST. SILVESTER, ST. JOHN LATERAN, ROME. The typical Perpendicular window represents, or suggests, a collec-tion of niches, or screen, of silvery-white tabernacle work, filled withrichly colored figures against colored backgrounds. A great windowof this style is, in short, a…
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