Appreciation of sculpture; a handbook by Russell Sturgis ... (1904)
Sturgis, Russell · The Baker · leaf 124
principal subject, we shouldhave difficulty here in tracing the connec-tion between the decaying Roman spirit andthe growing modern energy. For our pur-pose of comparative study it is well to skipat once to the twelfth century and to lookat the sculpture of a great Romanesquechurch. The Romanesque… … Plate XIX —< HARIRES CATHEURAl., \\ EST FKONJ . IAKT OF THE SOUTHJAMH OF IHE MIDDLE DOORWAY. The European Middle Ages vanced between them in such a way as tolengthen the nave by two bays. At thattime the statues which adorn the west por-tal of three doorways w^ere either whollynew, completed for…
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