Edwards, George Wharton, 1859- [from old catalog] · Philadelphia, The Penn publishing company · leaf 302
and assisted at his coronation in theCathedral. Liibke, writing of the sculptural details of the Cathe-dral, says, All the dignity and grace of the style herereaches a truly classical expression. Nevertheless, evenhere, in one of the master works of the time, we find agreat variety in the mode of… … RHEIMS in proportion, and with drapery which falls in statelyfolds, free in movement and with a gentle loveliness orsublime dignity of expression; others again are exag-gerated in height, awkward in proportion, caricatured inexpression, and affected in attitude. Strange that Liibke could not…
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