Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa . from /?? . ? ??,. ? ? . TO TORNEA. 259 and the Twelve Apostles; but the heads only were ™APvm,J visible, and those were as large as life. The head of our Saviour was the best part of the picture: it had something of the air and character of the works of old Palma, or of Leonardo da Vinci; the hair being parted over the forehead, and falling in long tresses on either side. Upon the floor, before the altar table, the skin of a bear was spread, to serve as a carpet. In this church, as at Roschild in Denmarh, and many of the
Travels in various countries of Europe, Asia and Africa . from /?? . ? ??,. ? ? . TO TORNEA. 259 and the Twelve Apostles; but the heads only were ™APvm,J visible, and those were as large as life. The head of our Saviour was the best part of the picture: it had something of the air and character of the works of old Palma, or of Leonardo da Vinci; the hair being parted over the forehead, and falling in long tresses on either side. Upon the floor, before the altar table, the skin of a bear was spread, to serve as a carpet. In this church, as at Roschild in Denmarh, and many of the churches in the North of Europe, is preserved a quantity of gilded sculpture, executed in wrood, representing, by a series of figures, the history of our Saviours life. The altar and pulpit were laden with this kind of work. We could not avoid being struck with the fate of the former idols of the Forlorn condi-tion of theCathedral, which were heaped, pell mell, into a corner, Symbols of Popery. under a staircase; the Virgin, and all her family, coveredwith dust and cobwe
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