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 61
choir-stalls to him or a compatriot, for theGothic feeling is too pronounced, and the angel and cherubsare not lissom andgraceful enough to havedescended from anItalian sky. The divisions be-tween the miserereseats (Fig. 17) arethoroughly Gothic ingeneral treatment andin their mouldings, butin the… … [8.—Christchurch, Hampshire. Bench-end in Choir. ner. But here again thetwo piitti which turntheir backs in so uncere-monious a way (Fig. 18)can hardly be the workof Italian chisels. It is equally difficultto assign the beautiful panelling in the long gallery at the Vyneto a foreigner (Fig. 19);…
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