Download And Enjoy Stories In Stone Authored By Martial Rose Shared As Audiobook

I enjoyed this book, however, I think it would have been better if the illustrations had followed the text closer, By pagethe text is still describing the cloisters, but the pictures which granted do have an explanation are of the bosses in the nave, A lot of bosses are discussed in the text but arent illustrated, More, small pictures, would also have been good, Frankly this isnt the easiest book to use it pays to work thro the illustrations amp their descriptions or just read the text, The magnificent roof bosses of Norwich Cathedral are one of the great hidden glories of medieval art, There are more than one thousand of these delightfully carved and painted keystones in the high stone vaulting, dating fromtoand measuring between eight and twentyfour inches wide.
The vast majority are figure carvings uniquely linked together in storytelling patterns, reflecting a variety of pagan, Christian, and folk subjects, Situated some eighty feet up from the floor of the cathedral, these ornaments are too distant to have been fully appreciated by worshippers over

the centuries by the same token, their inaccessibility has protected them from vandalism.
This book reproduces the most striking and interesting examples, selected from the hundreds of exquisite color photographs taken by the distinguished photographer Julia Hedgecoe, under the auspices of the cathedral.
They are introduced and fully described in a lively text by one of Norwich's foremost medieval historians, Martial Rose, .