Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . ROCHESTER Plate CLX//1. MALMESBURY ABBEY—South Porch CH. xxviiij ENGLAND—NORMAN PERIOD 251 between them is a plain cross with no figure on it\ Itwill be remembered that the same unwillingness to attemptthe divine portraiture was characteristic of the earlierByzantine work*. Malmesbury has a maonificentlv sculptured porch of Sculpture . at Malmes- late Norman work with figures of the apostles, six on a buryside, and in the tympanum of the doorway a figure ofChrist, in a vesica supported by angels. The figureshave draperies with thin folds, much convoluted
Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . ROCHESTER Plate CLX//1. MALMESBURY ABBEY—South Porch CH. xxviiij ENGLAND—NORMAN PERIOD 251 between them is a plain cross with no figure on it\ Itwill be remembered that the same unwillingness to attemptthe divine portraiture was characteristic of the earlierByzantine work*. Malmesbury has a maonificentlv sculptured porch of Sculpture . at Malmes- late Norman work with figures of the apostles, six on a buryside, and in the tympanum of the doorway a figure ofChrist, in a vesica supported by angels. The figureshave draperies with thin folds, much convoluted, and anattempt has evidently been made to give them variety ofattitude and expression (Plate CLXIII). Local traditionhas it that the sculptures of the apostles are older thanthe doorway, and some have thought them to be Saxon,I see no reason to doubt their being of the same date asthe rest of the porch. The figure of Christ in the headof the doorway has the same convoluted drapery, and thehand is turned back in the same impossible way as thoseof the apos
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