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Advantages Resulting From The Study Of Heraldry.
ture : the contrast between the use of Heraldry on antient monuments , and its abuse on modern slabs is most painful . In those dreadful perversions called Gothic monuments , or rather Gothic frames for monumental tablets , Heraldry , when required by employers is introduced in the most inappropriate manner . In the flourishing periods of pointed
architecture , not only the shield and its charges , the crest , the supporters , the badge , and the motto , were converted into pleasing and appropriate ornaments for tombs and sepulchral chapels ; but from a name apparently unpromising , an ingenious sculptor could fabricate a variety of designs recording and expressing it in a species of
hieroglyphic , technically called a rebus . Some may think these fancies puerile , and inappropriate to a sacred building . We can safely reply they are inobtrusive , because they are in their place in those architectural members which require sculptured ornaments , and numberless are the instances in which monuments are still recognized to belong to particular families , by the sculptured emblems , where the inscriptions are lost or defaced .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Advantages Resulting From The Study Of Heraldry.
ture : the contrast between the use of Heraldry on antient monuments , and its abuse on modern slabs is most painful . In those dreadful perversions called Gothic monuments , or rather Gothic frames for monumental tablets , Heraldry , when required by employers is introduced in the most inappropriate manner . In the flourishing periods of pointed
architecture , not only the shield and its charges , the crest , the supporters , the badge , and the motto , were converted into pleasing and appropriate ornaments for tombs and sepulchral chapels ; but from a name apparently unpromising , an ingenious sculptor could fabricate a variety of designs recording and expressing it in a species of
hieroglyphic , technically called a rebus . Some may think these fancies puerile , and inappropriate to a sacred building . We can safely reply they are inobtrusive , because they are in their place in those architectural members which require sculptured ornaments , and numberless are the instances in which monuments are still recognized to belong to particular families , by the sculptured emblems , where the inscriptions are lost or defaced .