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196 EARLY CHRISTIAN ART IN IRELAND.
arched western doorway of five orders surmounted by a canopy
enriched with sculpture, round-headed windows set in frames of
delicately incised mouldings. Pillars, plain or twisted, rise at the
corners of the building, and support a cornice running round the
summit of the walls from which gargoyles and sculptured heads
project. Within, the repose of the solemn round-arched style is
rather enhanced than interfered with, by the modestly applied and
delicately felt ornaments that enrich the orders of the arches or
the surface of the walls. The mural painter may repeat the
arcades and follow the architectural compositions of the grand
pages of the Eusebian canons in the “ Book of Kells,” and fill the
spaces between their columns with scriptural subjects such as are
found in the panels of the High Crosses, while the furniture of the
church, the books, the book-bindings, bells, shrines, and crosiers
might well repeat the delicate work of the Irish goldsmith of
antiquity, and the two-handled chalice on the altar be none the
less sacred because it preserved the chaste and lovely form that
has come down to us from the Irish church of the ninth century.
FIG. 104.—MOULDING, TUATM GRF.INE.
arched western doorway of five orders surmounted by a canopy
enriched with sculpture, round-headed windows set in frames of
delicately incised mouldings. Pillars, plain or twisted, rise at the
corners of the building, and support a cornice running round the
summit of the walls from which gargoyles and sculptured heads
project. Within, the repose of the solemn round-arched style is
rather enhanced than interfered with, by the modestly applied and
delicately felt ornaments that enrich the orders of the arches or
the surface of the walls. The mural painter may repeat the
arcades and follow the architectural compositions of the grand
pages of the Eusebian canons in the “ Book of Kells,” and fill the
spaces between their columns with scriptural subjects such as are
found in the panels of the High Crosses, while the furniture of the
church, the books, the book-bindings, bells, shrines, and crosiers
might well repeat the delicate work of the Irish goldsmith of
antiquity, and the two-handled chalice on the altar be none the
less sacred because it preserved the chaste and lovely form that
has come down to us from the Irish church of the ninth century.
FIG. 104.—MOULDING, TUATM GRF.INE.