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Updated: June 2, 2025
Some of the misereres are quaint, among them being found several examples of the curiously secular subjects chosen for this purpose by the wood-carvers of the period.
Horn" a word of praise which, as he wrote to Crocker, steadied his uncertain fingers "as nothing else had ever done." The students in his school were from all stations in life: young and old; all of them poor, and most of them struggling along in kindred professions and occupations engravers, house-painters, lithographers, and wood-carvers. Two or three were sign- painters.
Against the walls were sideboards on whose carved panels were bas-reliefs representing the Annunciation and the Adoration of the Magi. On top of the sideboards, beneath lace canopies, stood the painted and gilded statues of Saint Anne, Saint Marguerite, and Saint Catherine, so often reproduced by the wood-carvers of the Middle Ages.
Other archbishops of the cathedral are buried in the choir, and the heart of Richard Coeur de Lion once rested here, as did also the bodies of his brother Henry, and John, Duke of Bedford. The choir stalls, mostly the work of Flemish wood-carvers, are notable examples. The Basilica of St. Denis, so-called to-day, built over the remains of the martyred St.
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