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stainedglassattitudes.wordpress.com
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| | | | | Usually the idea of what a cathedral ought to be, that is, a colossal church building with a vast hall-like interior verging on the sublime, is said to originate in France in the twelfth century. And yes, while buildings like the Abbey church of St-Denis and cathedral of Sens in the 1140s did develop important... | |
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artandtheblackdeath.wordpress.com
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| | | | | The Gothic churches of the Middle Ages featured elaborate sculpture work and were sanctioned by the pope; the seventh centuryPope Gregory noted that "To adore images is one thing; to teach with their help what should be adored is another. What Scripture is to the educated, images are to the ignorant ... they read in... | |
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medieval-sculpture.com
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| | | | | In 1912 Edward Prior and Arthur Gardner published An Account of Medieval Figure Sculpture in England: a 734-page leviathan of a book, illustrated with over 800 photographs that marked a new level of scholarship and analysis in a previously unfashionable areaof study, and still certainly the most important and influential work in its field. The... | |
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alondoninheritance.com
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| | | Two Tree Island in Essex, near Canvey Island and Leigh-on-Sea has a causeway, the last Port of London landing place on the River Thames. | ||
