Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy . Fig. 100. (From Spring Gardens Sketchbook.) 278 WESTMINSTER ABBEY [ch. xvi Italianwork employed. There are traces of chequer work in theearly Norman building, and the vaulting of the nave andof the cloisters is banded with stone of two differentcolours with charming effect. King Henrys foreign inclinations were not limitedto France. Here alone in England till the time of theRenaissance do we find specimens of Italian art. It was. Fig. 101. The mosaicpavement required of a newly elected abbot that he should goto Rome for confirmation, and Abbo
Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy . Fig. 100. (From Spring Gardens Sketchbook.) 278 WESTMINSTER ABBEY [ch. xvi Italianwork employed. There are traces of chequer work in theearly Norman building, and the vaulting of the nave andof the cloisters is banded with stone of two differentcolours with charming effect. King Henrys foreign inclinations were not limitedto France. Here alone in England till the time of theRenaissance do we find specimens of Italian art. It was. Fig. 101. The mosaicpavement required of a newly elected abbot that he should goto Rome for confirmation, and Abbot Ware went therein 1258, the year of his election, and it is said alsoin 1267. From Rome he brought with him the materialsfor a pavement of opus Alexandrinum, and an artistOdericus to lay it for him in front of the High years later in 1283 he was buried under the ch. xvi] WESTMINSTER ABBEY 279 north side of his own pavement in a place chosen by Thehimself where, as his epitaph says, he now bears up pTvJmentthe stones which once he bore from the City1. Abbas Ricardus de Wara qui requiescit Hie portat lapides quos hue portavit ab Urbe. For the perfection of these pavements it is necessaryto use the materials of the Italian workmen, redPorphyry, green Porphyry or as they call it Serpentino,and Palombino, an opaque creamy-white stone some-thing like that used by lithographers2. No other stoneswill do as well, as those know who have tried to dowithout them. T
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