Искусства и ремесла Средневековья

CHAPTER YIII

SCULPTURE IN STONE

(England and Germany)

А PROGRESSIVE histoгy of English sculptшe in stone could Ье compiled Ьу going from clшrcli to chшch, and studyiвg the tympana, оvег the doors, in Roшanesque ашl Norman styles, and in follo,ving the works in tlie spandrils between the a1·chcs in early Goth.c wшk. Fiгst ,ve find гude sculptшes, not unlike tlюse in France. Thc Saxon work like the t,vo lo,v rcliefs no,v to Ье seen in Chichcsteг Cathedгal show dug-out lines and almost flat шodelling; then thc Noгman, slightly rounded, are ful1 of histo1·ic inteгest and significance, though ofteн lacking in Ьeauty. The two old pane1s alluded to, now in Chichester, ,vеге sнpposed t.o havc becn brought from Selsea Cathedral, having been executcd аЬонt the twelfth century. There is а good deal of Byzantine feeling in them; one represents the Raising of Lazarus, and the other, Our Lord entering the house of Магу and Martha. Th� figures are long and stiff, and there is а certain qнa]ity in the treatment of draperies not unlike that in the figшes at Chartres. Then follows the very early Gothic, like tЬе delightful 242