Cathedrals and cloisters of the Isle de France (1910)
Rose, Elise Whitlock · New York London : G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 142
PART OF THE HIGHEST, EXTERNAL GALLERY WHICH SUR-ROUNDS THE CHURCH LIKE A DIADEM. —REIMS. probable that, as Christian prelates had in earlier daysconsecrated pagan Temples to the Faith, so Catho-lic builders used ideas inherited from classic timesto express mediaeval dogmas in material shape, and… … THE INTERIOR IS MAGNIFICENT WITHOUT COMPLEXITY. —REIMS. une God. Whatever may have been the sources ofthe technical inspiration, the architects of Notre-Dame I20 The Mature Gothic have given to their nave a regularity that is nevermonotonous or obtrusive, and a unity which is incom-parably pure and…
Cathedrals -- France · France -- Description and travel
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