. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . , more or less, imitations, or variants, ofsuch earlier masterpieces as the tomb of Edward II, themakers of such uionnments as that of Lady Arundel atrhichestcr, and of William of AVykeham, in the great cathedralwhich he restoied out of all knowledge, certainly deserve to beremembered. It is, moreover, curious to see how thoroughly theartist of Williams monument anticipates the realism of our bestor im
. Social England; a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . , more or less, imitations, or variants, ofsuch earlier masterpieces as the tomb of Edward II, themakers of such uionnments as that of Lady Arundel atrhichestcr, and of William of AVykeham, in the great cathedralwhich he restoied out of all knowledge, certainly deserve to beremembered. It is, moreover, curious to see how thoroughly theartist of Williams monument anticipates the realism of our bestor imly modern sculptors—not a vein or wrinkle overlooked onthe folded Nevertheless, down to the middle of thefifteenth century, we are unable to identify any Englisli artist,either sculptor or painter, worthy of the name of artist; for the 1485] ARCEITEUTUFxE AXD ART. 499 earlier artists, the Master ^Valters and ilaster Williams, who, inHenry reign, painted pictures at Windsor and Westminster,the Odos and Edwards who carved trees of Jesse and thelike for the kings and i[ueens chamber, were, probably, scarcelymore artists in our modern sense than the sheriffs of Wiltshire. TOMB or EARL liirirARn liEAFCIIAlir, ST. MARYS, WARWICK. and Soutliampton A^ho received the kings connuand to havesuch works executed. It is not till we come to the reign of Henry VT.—the very wmiammiddle, that is, of the Perpendicular period—that w-e meet *^*^-with an Englishman who has left his name to a sterling workof art. This man is William Austin, the author of and con-tractor for the noble tomb of Earl Eichard Beauchamp, atSt. Marys Church, Warwick. It is a brass casting of theimage of a man, armed with sword and dagger, a helm andcrest under his head, and at his feet a bear musled, and Decora-tive 500 THE CLOSE OF THE MIDDLE AGES. [1399 lests on a tomb with fourteen inuigcs embossed, and eighteenless images of angels. The whole expense of the tomb andthe chapel in which it was placed i
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