Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · Boston, Marshall Jones Company · leaf 110
most vital andpregnant plastic art of Europe. In the un-forgettable Annunciation of the porch atMoissac, we find the proof that the elongationof the figure in twelfth century art originatedin the desire for chastity. Here the sculpturesare placed, not on the jambs as at Chartres,but in panels.… … Portal of the Cathedral at Le Mans
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