Some account of Gothic architecture in Spain (1865)
Street, George Edmund, 1824-1881 · London, J. Murray · leaf 229
s are singularly uncon-ventional ; and though theyare by no means always suc-cessful to an eye educated inthe nineteenth century, theyhave all of them graces andmerits which are almost en-tirely unseen in the produc-tions of nineteenth centurysculptors; whilst, again, instrong contrast to what… … Chap. VII. SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELLA. 155 grated to a band of unknown and unrewarded assistants! Thedetail of some of the smaller portions, as e.g. of the sculpturedshafts, is exquisitely refined and delicate, beautifully executed,and with a singular appreciation, in some respects, of the goodpoints…
Architecture · Architecture, Gothic
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