Show london museum obtains old romanesque window recent acquisitions of the victoria and albert museum in london include several notable pieces ol of sculpture and stained glass most important single item is the french romanesque triple window of stone which was purchased with the help of a generous contribution from the national art collections fund and erected in the east hall of the museum near the main entrance says the times of london this window was discovered not long ago during the demolition of an old house close to the cathedral of trie chateau near gisors visors about 30 kilometers from beauvais it consists of three rounded arches supported on columns with capitals of a late romanesque character inside each arch is a tympanum with two small pointed arches containing carvings of strange beasts such as birds with human heads sirens and a centaur drawing his bow against a basilisk the great delicacy of its decoration especially on the capitals suggests that the work dates from the end of the romanesque man esque period probably from the last part of the twelfth century among other pieces of sculpture are a sixteenth century r lorentine florentine terra cotta figure of a woman thought to be an allegorical representation of history and ascribed to giovanni bologna and the terra cotta sketch model by J M Rys brack 1693 1770 for the reclining figure of sir isaac newton neato n on his monument in westminster abbey the monument itself erected in 1731 was designed by william kent but the figures on it were the work of Rys brack |