The Cathedral of Santiago de Compostella in Spain, showing especially the sculpture of the Pórtico de la Gloria by Mestre Mateo / a series of twenty photographs recently taken by Thurston Thompson
A photographic series of twenty views of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Spain, made by Charles Thurston Thompson and published in London in 1868 by the Arundel Society for the study of art. The pictures document the carved columns and figures of the Pórtico de la Gloria by Mestre Mateo, shot in sepia albumen prints. A designer could take from them the close structure of Romanesque colonnettes, twisted shafts and stacked figure sculpture, shown in raking light and deep shadow.
