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 455
le, as we said above, asnothing but a proof of the religious independence succeeding the rigid faithof earlier days. A third opinion, again, is that of M. Michiels, who lookson the Pointed style as in some sort an inevitable result of the boldness ofthe Norman, and who considers the Gothic, of… … ARCHITECTURE. 389 Whatever may be the merits of these different opinions, into the dis-cussion of which we need not enter, it is now generally assumed that thePointed style, properly so called, sprang up first within the limits of theancient Ile-de-France, whence it propagated itself by degrees…
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