An outline history of sculpture for beginners and students, with complete indexes and numerous illustrations (1893)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, F.A. Stokes · leaf 186
n, or canopy, in the richlyornamented Romanesque style, and the combinations of theGothic and the decorative architecture are so skilfully madeas not to offend our taste. But it is generally acknowledgedthat the chief beauty of this work is the series of the figuresof the apostles, which are upon… … Fig. 96.—St. Sebald and the Burning Icicles. Vischer. and nobleness of the works of Ghiberti than are seen in thestatues of any other German artist of this age (Figs. 97, 98).Above the apostles are figures of prophets and otherBiblical personages ; Perseus and Hercules are also repre-sented, and…
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