Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1909)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New York, The Baker and Taylor Company · leaf 590
was the symbol. AsGothic culminated under Innocent III, the flamboyant style,as a vital and progressive art, came to an end amid the Warsof Religion. The book had killed the Church; and outsideof the Church medieval architecture found no nourishment. Flamboyant art of the XYI century shows many… … III. 274. — Rouen. Tour-de-Beurre A DECORATIVE ART earlier ages, never to err in propriety, and their bad taste showsthat they have been to school with the Renaissance. Theyseem at times even to delight in trying to make their designs asatrocious as possible (111. 259). The florid ornament runs…
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