Cathedrals and cloisters of the Isle de France (1910)
Rose, Elise Whitlock · New York London : G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 292
Our Lady ofLaon, like Rouen, a mere heterogeneous compendiumof fine and interesting architectural bits ? Is its everypart, like Reims, conceived in almost perfect harmony; Laon 261 or is it rather akin to the majority of the ecclesiasticalstructures of the Middle Ages in realising a numberof more… … its noble and majestic SIMPLICITY. LAOX. the chapels, give an effect of inconsistency; and thefacade, that portion of the exterior which is mostadmirable in part, is also the least harmonious as awhole. Its porches are, in themselves, stately andproportioned with fine dignity, and their…
Cathedrals -- France · France -- Description and travel
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