Word: archways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Virgin is shown seated on a carved throne within a Gothic structure. Over her head is a canopy of a rich red color, while in her hand is a book which she is reading tranquilly. On her right the Archangel Gabriel is about to enter through an archway which is decorated with a scroll motif much like that which was so common in the Renaissance...
...Gothie architecture is done especially well, with a keen eye for details, and the scroll motif on the archway is of particular interest because it shows that the Renaissance influence was beginning of penetrate into France...
...next encounters her in Cairo during the War; he has lost an arm in His Majesty's service and she is the luxurious mistress of a General. When she invites him to a tete-a-tete dinner against an archway filled with the radiant Egyptian sky, he spoils the event by broaching matters of the spirit again. "You women," he declares, "promise everything and give nothing?you promise everything; the sun, the stars and the tops of green hills." So affected is she by a vast amount of this sort of phraseology that she returns to Edinburgh as his dutiful...