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Title: International studio
Year: 1897 (1890s)
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Subjects: Art Decoration and ornament
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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scrolls, foliationsand emblems, symbolicof the church. Rising above thecross, the impressivefigures of Christ, St.Mary and the belovedSt. John are seen, andall about and abovethem are stationed—each in its own niche,topped by intricatelycarved canopies, andseparated by slendercolumns — saints and veahng all the poetry, the mvttmcm flint- lo *Ua „„™ , „ VIRGIN AND CHILD IN COLORED If II me mysticism that is the essence ALABASTER? ONYX AND SILVER_ and reformers, and the greatof Gothic architecture. Once church of st. vincent ferrer English and American prelates ofwithin the entrance, the eve imme- lee lawr.e, sculptor ^ Episcopal Church. This diately leaps to the chancel, where the splendor stately throng of figures, studied minutely asof the great reredos seems to concentrate and re- separate problems, and again in their relationshipfleet the whole of the architects intent. It rises to each other, form a living entity, echoing the AUGUST IIJ22 three ninety-Jive mceRnAcionAL
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spirit that animates the struc- thi main ...rial of the church of terIstic of Medieval types. ST. VINCENT FERRER, NEW YORK CUV ture as a whole, yet introduc- Bertram grosvenorgoodhue, architect Mr. Lawrie, so quick to grasp . -r 1 LEE LAWRIE, SCULPTOR mg to it, by specihc touches, the essentials, and equallya fresh vitality and a new verve and character, quick in sensing the dependence of sculpture uponThe spiritual quality inherent in Gothic architecture, always works in the specific char-eeclesiastical art is revealed in the asceticism of acter of the building which he is to adorn, evolvingthe thin, draped figures of the early martyrs, his sculpture out of the horizontal, vertical andwhose look of resignation and suffering are charac- arching lines oi architecture. So it was in the tbrei nineti -six AUGUST 1922 mceRnAcionAL SOTM© days of the thir-teenth century.The sculpture olChartres, Amiens,Rheims is as differ-ent in character asis the difference inthe Cathedralsthemselves. Thee

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