Lot Details
Lot 1030
Heinrich Hansen
Danish, 1821-1890
Rosslyn Chapel, Near Edinburgh, South Aisle of the Chancel Looking East
Signed H.H.; with remnants of an inscription Ros... (lr)
Oil on canvas
16 3/4 x 14 inches (42.5 x 35.5 cm)
Rosslyn Chapel, near Edinburgh, Scotland, is one of the most unusual examples of late Gothic architecture in Europe. Founded as a private chapel by Sir William St. Claire in 1446 and built over the following forty years, the chapel today is considerably smaller than the great church that was originally planned. Its most striking feature is a profusion of carving throughout its interior, in a wealth of forms that include garlands of flowers and foliage, birds and animals, angels, dragons, and grotesque heads. Considered idolatrous by Scotland's Protestant reformers, the chapel was repeatedly vandalized in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and fell into ruin. In the late eighteenth century, under the influence of Romanticism, the chapel was repaired and soon began to attract growing numbers of curious travelers, who continue to visit it in large numbers today.
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