DOI Heft:
No. 107 (February, 1902)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19875#0071
Studio- Talk
the former, as already stated, was brought to com- many a case in the adjoining museum), with which
pletion and is now on view. the artist has peopled the frieze, makes a brilliant
--- show and forms an appropriate decoration for a
Situated in the centre of the building, and divid- building dedicated to Scottish history. Back to the
ing it into the Portrait Gallery and the Museum of time of James III. almost all the portraits are
Scottish Antiquities, the hall is forty-four feet taken from reliable originals, and before then Mr.
square, and is surrounded on the first-floor level by Hole has tried to embody the historical conception
a gallery, or ambulatory, carried on pillars and of the people represented, while throughout he has
pointed arches, which are repeated above to carry chosen some characteristic action or accessory for
the roof. On the ambulatory level, however, an each, and has been careful to render costume with
aisle, over the vestibule and divided from the accuracy. Decoratively, however, there is a want
ambulatory proper by arcading, makes the hall the of culmination or of accent in this unceasing crowd
entire width of the building. The walls of the of figures ; and the filling of the spandrels between
lower hall are of brick, of a beautiful red colour, the frieze and the arch-mouldings with the arms of
and serve as a quiet and reposeful base for the twelve Scottish towns has little relationship to the
decorations which have been concentrated upon effect of the whole,
the frieze and spandrels of the lower arcading, and
upon the walls and roof of the ambulatory above. As the ambulatory is lit from both sides, the
- * decoration there is confined to the end walls, each
Painted against a background of gold, the gor- of which is divided by pilasters into four compart-
geously costumed procession of Scottish historical ments. On the east wall the subjects are The
characters, from Carlyle and Livingstone to the Mission of St. Columba to the Picts, The Landing of
ancient Celts (whose pre-historic memorials fill Queen Margaret, The Battle of Largs, and The
DECORATIONS IN THE AMBULATORY OK THE BY WILLIAM HOLE, R.S.A.
SCOTTISH NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
58
the former, as already stated, was brought to com- many a case in the adjoining museum), with which
pletion and is now on view. the artist has peopled the frieze, makes a brilliant
--- show and forms an appropriate decoration for a
Situated in the centre of the building, and divid- building dedicated to Scottish history. Back to the
ing it into the Portrait Gallery and the Museum of time of James III. almost all the portraits are
Scottish Antiquities, the hall is forty-four feet taken from reliable originals, and before then Mr.
square, and is surrounded on the first-floor level by Hole has tried to embody the historical conception
a gallery, or ambulatory, carried on pillars and of the people represented, while throughout he has
pointed arches, which are repeated above to carry chosen some characteristic action or accessory for
the roof. On the ambulatory level, however, an each, and has been careful to render costume with
aisle, over the vestibule and divided from the accuracy. Decoratively, however, there is a want
ambulatory proper by arcading, makes the hall the of culmination or of accent in this unceasing crowd
entire width of the building. The walls of the of figures ; and the filling of the spandrels between
lower hall are of brick, of a beautiful red colour, the frieze and the arch-mouldings with the arms of
and serve as a quiet and reposeful base for the twelve Scottish towns has little relationship to the
decorations which have been concentrated upon effect of the whole,
the frieze and spandrels of the lower arcading, and
upon the walls and roof of the ambulatory above. As the ambulatory is lit from both sides, the
- * decoration there is confined to the end walls, each
Painted against a background of gold, the gor- of which is divided by pilasters into four compart-
geously costumed procession of Scottish historical ments. On the east wall the subjects are The
characters, from Carlyle and Livingstone to the Mission of St. Columba to the Picts, The Landing of
ancient Celts (whose pre-historic memorials fill Queen Margaret, The Battle of Largs, and The
DECORATIONS IN THE AMBULATORY OK THE BY WILLIAM HOLE, R.S.A.
SCOTTISH NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
58