Cathedrals and cloisters of the Isle de France (1910)
Rose, Elise Whitlock · New York London : G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 76
SI Chartres 53 of France, at Amiens, Reims, or Beauvais, may seembut formal and to a large extent reproducible effectsof mere architectural rule on a gigantic scale. … the great figures . . . HAVE NOT THE . . . FINISHED INTELLECTUALITY OF THE ART OF AMIENS.—CHARTRES. It would be extremely difficult to give a reallyauthoritative decision between the contrasting meritsof five or perhaps ten of the greatest French Cathedrals;certainly some judgments are the decrees…
Cathedrals -- France · France -- Description and travel
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