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Cathedrals and cloisters of the Isle de France (1910)

Rose, Elise Whitlock · New York London : G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 366

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gure of a correctly mournfulwife. —rouen. Rouen 339 of the artistic sense, and elegant caprice rather thantaste. This intricate mass of lovely scvilptures wassadly mutilated by fanatics of the Reformation andthe Revolution; but Fergusson writes with much leniencythat, in spite of the ruin of some… … ■the GOTHIC TOMB.—ROUEN. is in the Lady Chapel, and it is a jewel of the art ofthe Renaissance. Ten years were spent in planningand in preparing its materials and sculptures; and,as has often been claimed, the monument has grace,dignity, and originality. But, like the facade, it has,perhaps, a too…

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