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 470
enuated meagreness and the complicated ornamentationof the style called Perpendicular ogival. If it penetrated also into Spain, itwas to contend with difficulty against the mighty Moorish school, which hadtoo many imposing chefs-d? amure in the past to surrender without resistancethe country of its… … Fg- 322-—Doorways of the Hôtel de Sens, at Paris ; the last remaining- portion of the Hôtel Royal deSaint-Pol, built in the reign of Charles V. (Fourteenth Century.) and to dethrone it in that very land which had been its cradle. Thecathedrals of Assisi, of Siena, of Milan, are the splendid works…
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