Cathedrals and cloisters of the Isle de France (1910)
Rose, Elise Whitlock · New York London : G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 284
toried sculptures, and they exemplifythe fact that incompletion is maiming to the grandeurof the Gothic. With both her arms, the Venus deMilo would, perhaps, be no more beautiful; the mindof an artist has never conceived a Winged Victorymore gloriously triumphant than that of Samothraceas it is… … LAOX IS A CATHEDRAL OF COMPARATIVELY SIMPLE STYLE. 253 Laon 255 present condition are so frankly incomplete that theirmagnificence is somewhat rudimentary and they areonly huge walls of secondary interest. Akin to thesquare apse-end in angularity of shape, they are alsoreasonably akin to it in…
Cathedrals -- France · France -- Description and travel
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