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 245
— Q 2 22S HALF-HOUE LECTURES. Figure, Medallion, and Tracery windows, and this followingof the type of the architectural sculptor prevails in the twofirst mentioned; the medalKon window being a successionof panels enclosing groups and histories such as are seen onthe arcades and spandrils of… … Norman Medallion. Cathedral of Sena. blindness t® beauty, and the mystical learning, of the earlymiddle ages, blend together in the representation of spiritualthings through the rudest material forms. The daringdirectness, too, with which they go towards the ends oftheir art, — splendour and mosaic…
Art · Decoration and ornament · Fore-edge painting
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