Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Architectural Review, Vol. 12: June-Dec. 1902
This is indeed clear enough when we stand before the stone images which remain to us the chief monuments of the Gothic genius. Yet it must not be forgotten that though its works have largely perished, still there was working Side by side with the craft of the Gothic architectural sculptor, the parallel skill of the image founder and the wood-carver; and what brought the two branches of sculpture very intimately together was that all materials had a finishing of colour and gilding. Bronze itself was gilt and enamelled, stone and wood were surfaced with gesso and painted? The pictor followed on the sculptor and completed his work. And whether of stone, wood or metal, such detached images so dressed and adorned must have amounted to tens of thousands, being made in all the towns of England, and sup plied as furniture to churches and chapels.
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