Westminster abbey and the cathedrals of England (1895)
Farrar, Frederic William, 1831-1903, Milman, Henry Hart, 1791-1868, Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn, 1815-1881 · Philadelphia : J. C. Winston & co. · leaf 45
tmacott, that the miserable decline in ecclesiastical sculpture was apparent.It is observable in Italy, in St. Peters, even in the tombs of the Popes. The truespirit of religious art disappeared, and sculpture, like painting, became a mere theatrein which to parade the vain science of the living,… … TOMB OF MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS. Westminster Abbey. 39 After the sixteenth century it no longer seems to be the object to teach nsthat man is a thing of nought, that his days pass like a shadow, that he is crushedbefore the moth, but rather to displaj^, as though they were enduring and desirable,the…
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