Cathedrals and cloisters of the Isle de France (1910)
Rose, Elise Whitlock · New York London : G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 156
ringly noble and beautiful. AtBourges, Reims, Paris, Laon, and Rouen, the life ofChrist, in Prophecy, Gospel, and Revelation, is thegreat theme, and the lesser subjects appear to have Symbolism I25 been chosen with broad electicism, and Amiens, asRuskin has truly said, has its great Bible. So far… … IX MORE THAN ONE OF THE OLDER CATHEDRALS OF THE ISLE-DE-FRANCE, THE SCULPTURES ILLUSTRATE A WONDERFULLY DEVELOPED . . . THEOLOGICAL SCHEME. CHARTRES. Holy Writ from the people and held them in mereignorant subjection. To the clerics, the only classof men who had books and cared overmuch to…
Cathedrals -- France · France -- Description and travel
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