Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1909)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New York, The Baker and Taylor Company · leaf 242
ss; a negro chargedwith gifts of Ophir is placed beneath the Queen of Sheba. Therelationship between base and statue is so close that in thecathedral of Paris it has been possible to restore with practicalcertainty the lost statues of the portal from the bases whichsupported them.1 Thus the… … III. 213. — St. fitienne or Beauvais. North Transept End THE FOUR MIRRORS larger aspects of the composition — the representations of thefour mirrors. The mirror of nature, in Vincent of Beauvais,consists of a commentary on the seven days of creation, whenGod made Heaven and Earth and all the…
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