The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880, tr · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 443
ust be assigned the greater number of the ancientchurches of France, grander and more magnificent than all those of precedingcenturies ; it was then, also, the first associations of builders were formed,whereof the abbots and the prelates themselves formed a portion, and whichwere essentially… … Fig. 299.—Remains of the Church of Mouen, in Normandy. Architecture of the Fifth or Sixth Century. Western churches preserved the primitive arrangement of the Latin basilica—that is, the elongated form and the lateral galleries ; the most importantmodifications were the lengthening of the choir and…
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