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	Thesculptures described opposite are of great importance              	              LYONS  CATHEDRAL
as g[f]iving the Lombard hunting and fantastic spirit with            
Gothic feeling and tyle fully developed and yet with a                	4.   A bird putting its head between its legs to bite its
grace in the single figures l[i]ike Pisan work:  It is most           own tail, which ends in a head.
necessary to verify their date to be compared with the                	5.   A dragon with a human head, set on the wrong way.
scul[,]p[l]tures on the facade of Bruges, when the f[g]eeling         6.   St Peter awaked by the angel in prison:  full of
has sunk into one of entire repose;  and the su[i]bjects              spirit, the prison picturesque, with a trefoiled arch:
are altogether sacred.   No more phantasms - no more                  the angel eager, St Peter startled and full of motion.
feverish visions;  a regular history of the old testament             7.  St Peter led out by the angel.
in quiet precsssioin round the arches - no more leaping               8.   The mirac. draught of fishes, fish and all in the
wrestling, galloping - or sword playing.  Gentle                      small space
figures with falling draperies who rarely do more than                9.   A large leaf, with two snails rampant coming out of
lift their hands:  (Except when Cain kills Abel) men under            nautilus shells, with grotesque faces and eyes at the ends
the strongest excitement;  and yet all this with a picture-[s]        of their horns very large.
queness of grouping - a power of grotesque when it is                             10.   A man with an axe, striking at a dog’s head which
admitted, and a redundant variety, as far removed from                comes out of a nautilus shell:  the rim of the shall
Byzantine languor on the one hand, as from Lombard fury               branches into a stem with two large leaves.
on the other.  The connection with both schools is howver                         11.   Martyred of St Sebastian - his body very  full of
traceabl[,]e here and there, in the interlaced                        arrows.
dangons necks of the tympanum string course;  for                                 12.   Beasts coming to ark:  Noah opening a ove a kind of
instance, very Byzantine and the dragons with leaf tails              wicker cage?
in the scukpture of the Creation.  Now:  Lyons and                                13.   Noah building the ark or shoes, excellent.
the North door of Rouen, which are in all respects allied                         14.   A vine leaf with a dragon head and tail, the one
are a far purer and more perfect Gothic than this of Bourge           biting the other.
the niche of Lyons - though still retaining the turrets at                        15.   A man riding a goat, catching a flying devil.
angles is incomparably more finely touched and more per-                          16.   An eel or unrea  growing into a bunch of flowers,
f[g]ectly systematized, and the traceries above in the                which turns into two wings.
pediment are the purest Gothic;  which here at Bourges we
have only in an extraordinary development of the earlier
and cruder ideas of pierced circular windows;  bye
lozenges - 6 foils, &c  and then this fiery school of
Rouen and Lyons

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