Homes, Works, and Shrines of English Artists with Specimens of Their Styles; To Which Is Added, Rambles in Rome - Brossura

Fairholt, Frederick William

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1151687626 ISBN 13: 9781151687623

Casa editrice: RareBooksClub.com, 2012

Riassunto

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 edition. Excerpt: ...clocks, a reigning favourite with our great-grandfathers. This is supported by massive ironwork, formed into foliage and flowers, and possessing more claim to attention on the score of artistic excellence than is usual in such works. It is surmounted by a quaint figure of a naval officer, in the costume of Queen Anne's era, using an astrolabe. Turning into the small square which is beside this church, we see in front a cottage residence, with heavy carved door, solid window frames, and a deeply-pitched roof. It may have been the parsonage house at one period; it seems fitted for the Dr. Primrose of Goldsmith's immortal story. It is, however, the house in which Etty lived and died. Shortly before his death he had attended the funeral of a friend in the churchyard of St. Olave, and he then desired to be buried in that spot provided he died in York; both events happened, and we will retrace our steps to visit the last resting-place of the painter: few lie in a more picturesque locality. The churchyard of St. Olave adjoins the beautiful grounds of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society, where one of the most interesting local museums in the kingdom is situated, as well as fragments of ancient buildings, including a portion of the Roman wall of the city of York; the noble multangular tower, one of its defences, and the elegant ruins of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Mary. The original foundation of this once large and opulent religious house was prior to the Norman Conquest; the ruins we now look upon are the remains of the work of the Abbot Simon de Warwick, completed in the latter half of the thirteenth century, the Augustan age of Gothic architecture in England, when it exhibited the chastest proportion and the most elegant conception, combined...

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• Editore: RareBooksClub.com
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1151687626
• ISBN 13: 9781151687623
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 40