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Stained glass as an art (1896)

Holiday, Henry, 1839-1927 · London, New York, Macmillan · leaf 190

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ted human beings as symbols of thosethat are beyond our ken. But to extend this to ourclothes, and to give these spiritual beings not merely In the carving over the stalls in the Chapter House, Salisbury.^ Benozzo Gozzoli, in the Campo Santo Pisa. Style in Relation to a few Special Toints 1+3… … Fig. 48. a narrow form of symbolism, which serves to lowerrather than elevate our conceptions. Symbols also oughtnot to clash with eachother, and when we havegiven angels wings toconvey to the eye theimpression of free andrapid movement, it issurely an artistic blunder(not to put it morestrongly)…

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