'Even serious artists can be reduced to feeble fakery by a religious commission'

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'Even serious artists can be reduced to feeble fakery by a religious commission' - Guardian

For two hundred years or so, the Lady Chapel in Ely Cathedral was a shadowy vault lit by the wheeling daylight that filtered through its stained glass windows. Here the faithful came to implore the intercession of the Virgin Mary, mediatrix of all grace and mercy. Most of this great cathedral, envisioned by William the Conqueror as a bastion of faith shining out over the lawless fens, is Norman in construction and feeling, but the Lady Chapel, which was added to the complex of buildings in the 14th century, with its elaborate tracery and shallow pointed arches, is decorated gothic.

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Thanx Wombs  :thumbsup: ... That is a really fascinating article