super-ornamentation

Updated: June 21, 2025

The primitive part pure ogival with but little mixture contrasts with the eastern end, which is covered over with the most glaring grotesque decoration; most of the chapels are spoiled by the same shocking profusion of super-ornamentation; the otherwise majestic cupola, the high altar, and the choir all suffer from the same defect.

Charles Rudy - The Cathedrals of Northern Spain