Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · Boston, Marshall Jones Company · leaf 54
too wise to confuse their gen-eral design. In the facade of Reims, forexample, there was absolute unity of com-position. The broad masses of the buttresses,the form of the towers, the stories weremarked as clearly as in a modern construction.The big divisions were not obscured by theprofusion of… … Cathedral at Bourges ,L1C ASTOR, L ART OF THE MIDDLE AGE greater than that which a modern building iscapable of bestowing. We had not only thefirst joy in the main lines of the composition(such as we might conceivably receive from amodern structure), but the longer we re-mained the greater became…
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