Cathedrals and cloisters of the Isle de France (1910)
Rose, Elise Whitlock · New York London : G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 224
THE BEAUTY OF THE STRUCTURE DOES NOT LIE, AS IS USUAL IN GOTHICAPSES, IN THE PINNACLES AND SUPPORTING HCTTRESSES, BUT IN THESYMMETRICAL DEVELOPMENT OF ITS THREE STORIES. NOYON. buttresses and their ornamentation. Like the Ro-manesque, the dignity of Noyon is created by the• lis]kisition of the… … liiltiiijlll THE WHOLE WALL CONSISTS OF COMPARATIVELY SHORT ARCHES,SO CUNNINGLY DISPOSED AND SUPERIMPOSED THAT THEFIFTH AND HIGHEST STORY IS REACHED WITHOUTANY SENSE OF MONOTONY. NOYON. T93 Noyon 195 new, and if there is any reminiscence of a greaterGothic form, it is a very modest suggestion of…
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