This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...Chapel, Westminster,1 to the British Museum. It dates, apparently, from about the middle of the fourteenth century, and has strongly distinctive features of its own which bring it into closer relationship with English Illumination miniatures than with anything in Italy or France. The action of the figures is varied, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...Chapel, Westminster,1 to the British Museum. It dates, apparently, from about the middle of the fourteenth century, and has strongly distinctive features of its own which bring it into closer relationship with English Illumination miniatures than with anything in Italy or France. The action of the figures is varied, perhaps too highly varied, and dramatic. The modelling is fused, the rendering of draperies elaborate, the coloring both brilliant and rich. These latter characteristics are to be found in all three of these paintings, although their dates are probably half a century apart. Exactly similar qualities are to be found in a fourteenth century retable in Norwich Cathedral. The continental work which comes nearest is that of certain later Frenchmen, such as Jean Malouel, who may well have been influenced by English painters, just as French and Flemish illuminators were 1 A portrait of Edward III, kneeling, also existed in St. Stephen's Chapel previous to the fire FIG. 296.--RICHARD IL WESTMINSTER. (Painter unknown.) FIG. 297.--RICHARD IL AND SAINTS. (Wilton House.) influenced by the decorators of English manuscripts. The distinctive features, speaking broadly, of English Gothic painting are energy of movement and fine color, a rare combination, which is not to be found in Tuscan Art of the time to the same degree. Little substance or continuity, however, can as yet be given to the history of painting in England before the advent of Holbein, about the middle of Henry VIII 's reign. Great destruction of things portable had taken place during the Wars of the Roses, and the fate which threatened the religious houses for some years before their dissolution had its effect in discouraging their artistic activity. So that the German painter arrived in the nic...
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