. An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . re, the fountain-headof all perfection in art, to whichall who are not content to bemere copyists of their predeces-sors must apply themselves. Insome recent instances of the re-vival of the Decorated style, thefoliage has been sculptured fromnature with great success. Thesculpture of the human figure inthe early Decorated period is re-markable for the ease and chaste-ness of the attitudes, and the freeand graceful, though at the sametime rich, folds of the figures can surpass in sim-plicity and beauty the effigy ofQueen Elean
. An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . re, the fountain-headof all perfection in art, to whichall who are not content to bemere copyists of their predeces-sors must apply themselves. Insome recent instances of the re-vival of the Decorated style, thefoliage has been sculptured fromnature with great success. Thesculpture of the human figure inthe early Decorated period is re-markable for the ease and chaste-ness of the attitudes, and the freeand graceful, though at the sametime rich, folds of the figures can surpass in sim-plicity and beauty the effigy ofQueen Eleanor in WestminsterAbbey, and those on the crosseserected to her memory are almostequally fine, especially those onthe ]!^orthampton cross (139) ;those at Waltham have been mutilated and cross at Geddington is perhaps the most perfectof those which remain. This is not mentioned in theexecutors accounts, but probably only because thatpart of the accounts has been lost; it is as plainlya memorial cross to Queen Eleanor as either of 138. Exetfr Cathedral,c. 1300. Clustered pillar, withmoulded caps and bases. DECORATED DOORWAYS. 177 The Dooewats of this style are frequently large,and very richly sculp-tured; hut in smallchurches they are as fre-quently plain, and havemerely a dripstone overthem, the roll-mouldingoften terminated by twosmall heads, which aregenerally a king and abishop, as at Kislingbury,]Sorthamptonshire (140);this is the case also withthe windows. It is oftennot easy to distinguish theplain doorways of thisstyle from those of thepreceding one, but in ge-neral they are not sodeeply recessed, and thereis a slight difference inthe look, even where thereare no mouldings to dis-tinguish them. A few door-ways of this style aredouble, but this is not acommon arrangement in En2:1 and. When there 1^9. Open Niche, with Canopy and Pinnacles, and Figure of dneenare shafts in the iambs Eleanor, from her Monumental 1 -. , Cross at Northampton, 1294.
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