Impressions of Spain
Impressions of Spain
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Sebastiani desecrated and pillaged the wonderful treasures it contained; but the tortoise-shell and mother-of-pearl doors and presses remain, reminding one of those in the Armenian Church at Jerusalem at the shrine of St. James. There are also two statues of St.
Bruno, by Alonso Caiio ; wonderful for their life-like appearance and expression, but still not Digitized by VjOOQ IC 78 Impressions of Spain.
equal to the incomparable one at Miraflores.
There are some beautiful alabaster and agate pil...lars still left in the chapel behind the high altar, which it is to be supposed were too heavy for the spoilers to carry off. In the cloisters are some curious frescoes of the martyrdoms of the Carthusians, at the time of the Protestant Re- formation, by Henry VI I L of England. The guide who accompanied our travellers said slyly to the only Catholic of the party : * We had bet- ter not explain the subject of these. Let them imagine they are some of the horrors of the Inquisition — that always takes with English people r Another picture was startling both in subject and coloring ; it was that of a dead doc- tor, much venerated in life, who on a funeral panegyric being pronounced over him, started from his coffin exclaiming, *that his life had been a lie, and that he was among the damned !
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Sebastiani desecrated and pillaged the wonderful treasures it contained; but the tortoise-shell and mother-of-pearl doors and presses remain, reminding one of those in the Armenian Church at Jerusalem at the shrine of St. James. There are also two statues of St.
Bruno, by Alonso Caiio ; wonderful for their life-like appearance and expression, but still not Digitized by VjOOQ IC 78 Impressions of Spain.
equal to the incomparable one at Miraflores.
There are some beautiful alabaster and agate pil...lars still left in the chapel behind the high altar, which it is to be supposed were too heavy for the spoilers to carry off. In the cloisters are some curious frescoes of the martyrdoms of the Carthusians, at the time of the Protestant Re- formation, by Henry VI I L of England. The guide who accompanied our travellers said slyly to the only Catholic of the party : * We had bet- ter not explain the subject of these. Let them imagine they are some of the horrors of the Inquisition — that always takes with English people r Another picture was startling both in subject and coloring ; it was that of a dead doc- tor, much venerated in life, who on a funeral panegyric being pronounced over him, started from his coffin exclaiming, *that his life had been a lie, and that he was among the damned !
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