‘ RELIGIOUS ART.’ 35 and minor accidents of medieval pulpits have been unintelli- gently copied, and are made the leading features of the work. Monotonously moulded shafts and plinths and bases, showy capitals, extravagantly disproportioned ‘ handsome ’ cornices, unmeaning canopies, and paltry… … PROFESSIONAL ‘RELIGIOUS ART’ AT WESTMINSTER. and to divert the eye from the distinguished drawing-master’s incapacity. The pulpit proper ought, of course, to he the subject of the highest workmanship and art, but here a meagre shell, on which a few crude panels set up lozenge-wise are introduced to…
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