Bond, Frederick Bligh, 1864-1945, Camm, Bede, 1864-1942 · London, I. Pitman · leaf 132
of these fifteenth centurywood-carvings are. Strange how the blight of barren ugliness should have so fallen upona nation as completely to efface in a few generations the instinct and power of beautifulproduction ! Yet ere the shadow of a sad Puritanism fell, and a sterile coldness usurpedthe place… … SECTION III THE ICONOSTASIS AND THE ROODLOFT THE ICONOSTASIS OF THE EASTERN CHURCHHE iconostasis, or solid screen of the sanctuary, developed from its simpler X prototypes in the primitive churches of the third and fourth centuries, wasalready known in Egypt, Libya, Greece, and Asia Minor before…
Screens (Church decoration) · Church architecture
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