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SANTIAGO CATHEDRAL.
PORTICO DE DA GLORIA.
SOME ACCOUNT
OF
GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE
IN
SPAIN.
BY GEORGE EDMUND STREET, A.R.A.,
HONORARY MEMBER OF THE IMPERIAL ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS, VIENNA.
“The old paths, where is the good way.”
JEREMIAH vi. 16.
SECOND EDITION.
LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.
1869.
The right of Translation is reserved.
TO
THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE,
&c. &c. &c.,
THIS WORK IS INSCRIBED
AS A TESTIMONY OF THE AUTHOR’S RESPECT
AND ADMIRATION.
PREFACE.
THE book which I here commit to the reader requires, I fear, someapology on my part. I feel that I have undertaken almost more than anartist like myself, always at work, has any right to suppose he canproperly accomplish in the little spare time he can command.Nevertheless, I have always felt that part of the duty which everyartist owes to his mother art is to study her developments wherever theyare to be seen, and whenever he can find the opportunity. Moreover, Ibelieve that in this age it is only by the largest kind of study andrange of observation that any artist can hope to perfect himself in socomplex and difficult an art as architecture, and that it is only bystudying the development of Gothic architecture in all countries that wecan form a true and just estimate of the marvellous force of theartistic impulse which wrought such wonders all over Europe in thetwelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries.
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