Schuyler, Montgomery, 1843-1914 · New York, Harper & Brothers · leaf 120
them. The developmentof a cathedral requires, indeed, a system of piers andvaults and flying arches and weighted buttresses. Butthese need not be the same features in modelling, indetail, or in expression that we know in historical ex-amples. Instances are not wanting to show that they * See Mr.… … AN AMERICAN CATHEDRAL jq- may be massed with the stalwart simpHcity of the Ro-manesque builders as well as drawn into the complexand bewildering forms they assumed in the later Gothic.In his design for Albany, Mr. Richardson has shownvery clearly that an artist, whose individuality is strongenough,…
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