Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 311
e of such a character that the choice seems to lie between assign-ing them to the Saxon eraand the first half of the twelfthcentury. In a sketch of ournational sculpture, as an art byitself, no place need be foundfor such carving as was donein the days of round archedGothic. Even in its… … FIG. 520.—CIRCULAR BOSS. CHESTERCATHEDRAL. 276 SCULPTURE-FIRST PERIOD points in First Pointed structures.These heads were, of course,decorations, but the corbels, label-ends, and string-stops, whichsupplied their raisons detre wereso exactly adapted to their forms,that the carver could work…
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