The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 453
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… … Fig. 306.—JVIayence Cathedral. Rhenish Norman. (Iwellth and Thirteenth Centuries). ARCHITECTURE. 389 Whatever may be the merits of these different opiuions, 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…
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