Some account of Gothic architecture in Spain (1865)
Street, George Edmund, 1824-1881 · London, J. Murray · leaf 258
s and Lazarus, and on the right with a death-bed scene,where angels carry up the soul to Paradise. The detail of thefoliage seemed to me to have a very Italianizing character, beingmostly founded on the acanthus-leaf. The capitals are verydelicate, but copied closely from Classic work, and the… … SAN VICENTE, AVILA. INTERIOR OF WESTERN PORCH. Chap. VIII. AVILA: SAN VICENTE. 173 To me the sight of such work as this is always somewhat dis-heartening. For here in the twelfth century we find men exe-cuting work which, both in design and execution, is so immea-surably in advance of anything that…
Architecture · Architecture, Gothic
Internet Archive · Wellesley College Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
