George Edmund Street: Unpublished Notes and Reprinted PapersStreet, George Edmund
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George Edmund Street: Unpublished Notes and Reprinted Papers
Street, George Edmund
Architecture, Gothic; Church architecture -- Europe; Europe -- Description and travel; Street, George Edmund, 1824-1881
I can but give you a hurried list of names, but not without a warm
recommendation to you to go and see for yourselves how very much is to
be learnt in all these churches, not only in architectural matters, but
even much more in ecclesiological. Germany is the one part of Europe
in which the furniture of the Middle Ages still remains. There where
in Protestant Nuremberg every altar still stands with its white cloth,
and candles, and crucifix; where the great rood still hangs aloft in
the churches; where in one church, as at Brandenburg, one may see
some thirty or forty mediaeval vestments still hanging untouched in
their old presses; where you may see screens of every date, from early
Romanesque to the latest pointed; where coronae, and all kinds of metal
furniture and ancient work of a date far earlier than any other country
in Europe can show are still preserved; where, as in the choirs of
Halberstadt and Hildesheim, the old illuminated office books still rest
upon the old choir desk; where hangings of quaint and gorgeous patterns
still hang round the choirs, and where triptychs and carved retables
are so common that one forgets to take note of them;--there it is, I
say, that you must go if you would wish to study and to understand
fully the ecclesiology of the Middle Ages. It is indeed a country full
of the most wonderful interest to the ecclesiologist in all ways, and
I am anxious to say that though I have been asked by your committee to
give a second paper on Italian architecture, I feel very strongly that
I should be doing their work much better by telling you somewhat of all
those things to which I have just referred. In the first place, I have
said my say on Italy, and have nothing new to tell you; and secondly, I
have been obliged to avoid saying one word either on the furniture or
glass of German churches, or on the domestic architecture in which the
country is so rich,--and on all these points I should be only too glad
at some future day to give you some notes of what I have seen.
INDEX
Abbeville, 33.
Abbot Odalric of Conques, 242.
Abbot Peter de Wesencourt of S. Germer, 156.
_Abécédaire_, 155, 158, 220.
acanthus, 95.
Aesthetic Movement, 13, 32.
Agnolino of Orvieto, 94.
Ainay, church of, 35, 39, 207, 228, 247;
_v._ Lyon.
Aix-la-Chapelle, 302, 307, 322.
_Album Photographique de l’Archéologie Réligeuse_, 215, 223, 224.
Alcalá, 43.
Alençon, 33.
All Saints, Clifton, 30.
Alps, 36, 49, 65, 89.
Altamira, Rafael, 48.
Altenberg, 321, 327.
Amalfi, 51, 53.
American attitude, 32, 33.
Amiens, 16, 32, 33, 129, 131, 151, 158, 163, 195, 206, 318, 321, 326.
Ancona, 50.
Andalusia, 42.
Andernach, 175, 323, 324, 327.
Angelico, Fra, 8, 9, 52.
Angers, 134.
Angevine type, 45, 128.
Angoulême, 231, 236.
Anjou, 128, 129.
_Antiquité Expliquée, L’_, 223.
Apengeter, Hans, of Lübeck, 277.
Apennines, 76, 82, 86.
apsidal choirs, 19, 89, 137, 176, 320, 325.
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