The Way of Saint James Volume 2 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 Excerpt: ...and delicacy. She holds the Child on her left arm and He plays with the end of her veil, a motive Duccio loved though he treated it very differently. The Saviour stands in a long and narrow mandorla, about the tips of which cluster the Evangelical beasts: His tunic is edged around the throat and down the front with a rather simple pattern, and His book is bound pre French parallels Las Huelgas about the doors of the cloister called for S. Ferdinand. It may be seen again at Tudela in Navarre on the doorway of S. Maria, and at Olite. In other words, the seed of these delicate leaves may have come with the architects summoned from the Isle of France, or with one wandering along the Pilgrim Way, and S. Ferdinand, liking the motive, used it twice at least, and the workmen of Navarre copied. In the archivolts are a row of angels with candles and another of angels making music, the other bays occupied with leafage. On the mid-post stands S. Froilan, with a gesture not so much of benediction as of accueil and an ardent face, almost too expressive, already quite Spanish in feature. This will be about contemporary, I should say, with the south porch figures at Chartres, the S. George and S. Theodore perhaps: later than the confessors there, anticipating in a way the bishops of Bertrand de Goth at Bordeaux. The statues in the jambs are of the purest thirteenthcentury type but belong to the latter half of the century: --the Virgin Annunciate, the Virgin in Presentation and Simeon, and a King and Queen. The Angel Gabriel is missing and a fine prophet, perceptibly smaller in scale, from the west front, occupies one niche. The Virgin recalls the older statues of Rheims, for instance, Eve caressing the Serpent, in her forehead, slightly bombe, and her smile over-subtle and ..