A history of the Gothic revival : an attempt to show how the taste for mediæval architecture, which lingered in England during the two last centuries, has since been encouraged and developed (1872)
Eastlake, Charles L. (Charles Locke), 1836-1906 · London : Longmans, Green, and Co. ; New York : Scribner, Welford, and Co. · leaf 304
s, viz. All Saints and St. Albans,we find little or no figure-carvingwhile the chancels in each case areresplendent with colour. Withoutattempting to divine the precise causeof this peculiarity, it is not unrea-sonable to assume that it is due in some measure to the general difficultywhich… … ■ 260 Decorative Sculpture and Painting. in the present carvers work. The Mediaeval sculptor, with half thecare and less than half the finish now bestowed on such details, managedto throw life and vigour into the capitals and panel subjects which grewbeneath his chisel. The angel choir at Lincoln…
Gothic revival (Architecture) · Architecture
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