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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1911. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... work, unrivaled by any continental example, was done by a nonhistoric sculptor by the name of De-o pe-les, who, being a spirit sensitive, was influenced by an Atlantian spirit sculptor, who had been, in Atlantis, an expert at foliage sculpture. The colossal figure of an Angel, now in the South Kensington Museum, supposed to be Italian sculpture of the fourteenth century, was wrought by a non-historic sculptor by the name of Dis-co'H. The large stone statue, in South Kensington Museum, of the fourteenth century, an example of the art finished with a stamped gesso, and an inlay of painted and glazed foil, was the work of a non-historic sculptor by the name of No'la-mun, of French descent. The colossal recumbent figure of Jesse, in Abergavenny church, which originally formed the lower part of what was known as the "Jesse tree," out of which a great tree was represented as growing, on the limbs of which were figures of the illustrious descendants of Jesse's line, was an early work of the non-historic sculptor, Ba-san'fa. Of this, only the stump of the tree, springing from the side of Jesse, now remains. The piece, which is ten feet long, was cut from a solid block of oak; and the figure of an Angel, at the head, was worked out of the same piece of wood. The influence of the wood sculpture of Mediaeval Europe was re-embodied in the idea of wood carving generally, and lives in the ornamental decoration of church stalls, canopies, screens, and roofs. This work, in England, reached its zenith of perfection in the fifteenth century. The influence of figure decorative sculpture having extended to the fourteenth century, arid having attained a higher degree of perfection by the models of that period, we find it manifesting through such works as the gilt bronze por...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1151038423
- ISBN 13 9781151038425
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages330
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