Windsor castle . fect survival from the Castle as itwas at the end of the middle ages. Ruskin calledit a very visible piece of romance. It is exquisiteand elaborate. It holds and embalms the might be called hard, and the nave and aislesare at first sight a little cold on account of thelack of history, except for the mildly pathetic monu-ment to George V of Hanover. But the choir, withits pomp of banners, the swords, helmets, mantels,and arms of the Garter Knights, is of an incomparablesombre gorgeousness. The groined vault of the naveof St. Georges Chapel, and the Tudor buildings o
Windsor castle . fect survival from the Castle as itwas at the end of the middle ages. Ruskin calledit a very visible piece of romance. It is exquisiteand elaborate. It holds and embalms the might be called hard, and the nave and aislesare at first sight a little cold on account of thelack of history, except for the mildly pathetic monu-ment to George V of Hanover. But the choir, withits pomp of banners, the swords, helmets, mantels,and arms of the Garter Knights, is of an incomparablesombre gorgeousness. The groined vault of the naveof St. Georges Chapel, and the Tudor buildings onthe north side, and the south and east walls otthe Tomb House, are Henry VIIs; the groined vaultof the choir at St. Georges, and the entrance gate-way, are Henry VIIIs. The gallery and facade,with the postern at the west end of the NorthTerrace, are Elizabethan. The furniture and decorations of the Castle aresplendid and costly, but not of great age. Thecollection of pictures is as large but not as well , (C162). a< xu I/) LL1 a O UJ O </) C z< a UJ H U UJ o UJ o UJ H THE NEIGHBOURHOOD 17 displayed as if it were a public gallery. The tapestriesare more suitable to a residence, if less pleasing inthemselves; they belong to the last two Gibbons life-like carvings of fish, fowl, andfruit are extraordinarily appropriate here. We missLelys portraits of the beauties of the Restoration,which have gone to Hampton Court; for they belongto the last period when the Castle was thoroughlyalive, royally and humanly. None of the furnitureand household effects mentioned in an inventory of1547 is left. There is no Elizabethan or true Jaco-bean work, because the furniture was continuallyrenewed and kept up-to-date in the seventeenth andeighteenth centuries. Nothing has come down fromthe time of Cromwells occupation, but much ofCharles IIs, William and Marys, Annes, and GeorgeIVs. George IV was also the first considerable col-lector of ancient arms at Windsor. The arm
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