Cathedrals and cloisters of the Isle de France (1910)
Rose, Elise Whitlock · New York London : G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 420
e pillars of the narrowside-aisle mark the confines of the festal procession. Mr. Fergusson, with Viollet-le-Duc, thinks that thefirst idiosyncrasy, the extreme comparative depressionof the exterior aisle, destroys the harmony of thewhole church; for, on an inspection of the building,the outer… … 3»5 Bourges 3 87 aisle would have added to the perfection of the edificesextraordinary and admirable elevation, but to condemnthe third aisle utterly as an apparent afterthoughtis perhaps too drastic. The change of proportion inthe vaults of Notre-Dame of Paris is precipitous incomparison with that…
Cathedrals -- France · France -- Description and travel
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