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medieval-sculpture.com
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| | | | | Cushion capitals (also called cubic capitals) are normally described as capitals formed by the intersection of a cube and a sphere. They have a flat semicircular face, or 'shield', at the top of each side, and the curved triangular lower angles of the bell are all that remain of the spherical form. This kind of... | |
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flickeringlamps.com
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| | | | | A few weeks ago, I was spending the weekend with old friends in Sheffield, and on the Saturday afternoon we drove out to Southwell, a pretty little town in Nottinghamshire. I wasn't sure what to expect - my friend had sold Southwell to me as a beautiful and interesting historic town, but I had no... | |
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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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flhwnotesandreviews.com
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| | | I was doing some research for an article on Henry Fitzroy, illegitimate son of King Henry VIII and happened to find this book. I was pleasantly surprised as I had no idea someone had written a biography of Fitzroy. The book was first published in 2001 and I was lucky enough to find a used... | ||
