Half-hour lectures on the history and practice of the fine and ornamental arts (1875)
Scott, William Bell, 1811-1890, Linton, W. J. (William James), 1812-1897, illustrator · New York : Scribner, Welford & Armstrong · leaf 246
0 HALE-HOUR LECTURES ON ART. Figure, Medallion, and Tracery windows, and this followingof the type of the architectural sculptor prevails in the twofirst mentioned; the medallion window being a successionof panels enclosing groups and histories such as are seenon the arcades and spandrils of… … Norman Medallion. Cathedral of Sens. blindness to 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…
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