Note 445 — Chapter XXI · THE SPANISH ARCHITECTS OF THE MIDDLE AGES.

Villanueva, Viage Lit. a las Iglesias de España, xvi. 99, says that “Lapicida” does not really mean a cutter of stones, which would be described as “pica petras.” In vol. xxi. p. 107, however, he speaks of “Lapicida” as the Latin term corresponding to “picapedres” in the vulgar tongue; and he says sculptors of figures called themselves “Imaginayres.”