Early renaissance architecture in England; a historical & descriptive account of the Tudor, Elizabethan & Jacobean periods, 1500-1625, for the use of students and others (1901)
Gotch, J. Alfred (John Alfred), 1852-1942 · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 407
e a superstructure displaying the family arms, and so designedthat with its supporting obelisks and detached figures it formeda more or less pyramidal finish. The back of the tomb ARCHED CANOPIES OF TOMBS. 217 above the figures, and enclosed by the arch, was usuallyoccupied by a tablet setting… … mainder of thespace, and deckedwith all manner ofdelicate ribbonsand garlands. Inevery suitableplace appeared thearms of the chiefperson concerned,or those of his wife,or some notablefamily to whichthey were allied.The whole monu-ment was brightlycoloured, where theuse of differentkinds of marble…
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