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Half-hour lectures on the history and practice of the fine and ornamental arts (1861)

Scott, William Bell, 1811-1890 · London : Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts · leaf 130

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de Corbeil, and placedat the entrance of the vaults of St. Denis, show that sculp-ture attained a large measure of power veiy early in the POSTUEES OF EFFIGIES. 13 middle ages. At tlie end of the twelfth centuiy the sim-plicity and noble feeling of the monumental statues aresufficient to place them… … Queen Eleanor, 1290. of the same time is pure and charming, the long figurebeing fully draped in regular folds. But, while the ex-pression and sentiment are so admirable, the invention isrestricted. At first the warrior holds his sword and shield;the lady, sometimes also the male figure, supports…

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