Hourticq, Louis, 1875-1944 · New York : Scribner · leaf 122
tower the solidwall begins to be pierced and carved, and theribs to ramify with an exuberance whichthe solid forms of a rigid geometry support.The actual fagade superposes styles thatbring us to the middle of the seventeenthcentury. Neo-classical architects added afagade in the so-called Jesuits… … FIG. 200.—SPIRAL STAIRCASE AT SAINT-MACLOV, ROUEN. ess receptive; itstill goes on towards completion tothe present day. The fourteenth,fifteenth, and sixteenth centuriesenriched the naves with curiouslywrought rood screens, which weredestroyed in the eighteenth century.They gave the choir carved…
Art
Internet Archive · University of Toronto, Robarts Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
