Excerpt from A Description of Mr. Burges' Models for the Adornment of St. Paul's: Now Exhibited at the Royal Academy Proceeding upwards, we now come to those parts of the building which are above the intended marble-work. The nave arcade is painted white, but toned to avoid crudeness, with the mouldings and some portions of the cornice gilt; but where gilt ornaments occur on a gold ground, the latter is glazed with a reddish colour, and would then look like red gold. The spandrels are enriched with a pattern which is produced partially by sinking the present surface of stone, and partially by the addition of mouldings. As the decoration in this portion of the building is restricted to the use of white and gold, a flat surface, without texture, would have been poor in effect. The colour is concentrated into the centre of the span drels by the introduction of shell-like niches of bright green marble, containing heads. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.