Cathedrals and cloisters of the Isle de France (1910)
Rose, Elise Whitlock · New York London : G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 449
are too severe; and the little tri-forium itself is so stunted that the proportions of thenave would be more impressive without it. The rose-windows are travesties of the art. In the side-aisles,the soft tones of stained-glass mellow the severe as-pect of the grey stone, and take from it that… … THE CENTRAL NAVE HAS A DREARY ASPECT OFDRAB-COLOURED ASCETICISM, OF STIFFNESS AND COLDNESS. -ORLEANS. and its qualities are large and important. It has allthe constructive attributes of a Gothic church, itsgreat columns are deeply channelled and rise to goodlyheight, its aisles are spaciously…
Cathedrals -- France · France -- Description and travel
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