Cathedrals and cloisters of the Isle de France (1910)
Rose, Elise Whitlock · New York London : G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 236
ury. In style,and above all in proportions, neither one nor the otheris such as the Cathedrals greatest architects wouldhave built; and if Robert of Luzarches could see thedisproportionate effect from which his facade nowsuffers and the elephantine heaviness which thesedwarfed towers lend to the… … ■the FAgADE IS FINELY CONCEIVED. —AMIENS.21;? Amiens 215 handsomely superimposed, flanked by towers, and sup-ported by buttresses whose utilitarian force was moreor less cleverly decorated and concealed. In a Ca-thedral of the second rank, like that of Meaux, theseornamental stages were…
Cathedrals -- France · France -- Description and travel
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