Cathedrals and cloisters of the Isle de France (1910)
Rose, Elise Whitlock · New York London : G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 240
which Viollet-le-Duc declares to be of the mostbeautiful style of the XIII century, is the first story,the three receding portals. Their deep bays penetrate between the four straight,heavy buttresses of the fagade and are crowned bypointed gables. Each door has a dividing pier, andits statue, and a… … one of the most interesting of these saints of AMIENS ISBISHOP GEOFFROY. —AMIENS. 217 Amiens 219 ornamented with many caryatides. In a large frameof stone, quatrefoils contain symbolic or dramaticscenes; the same order of columns, dais, figures, andquatrefoils is continued on the front of each…
Cathedrals -- France · France -- Description and travel
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