Cathedrals and cloisters of the Isle de France : including Bourges, Troyes, Reims and Rouen (1910)
Rose, Elise Whitlock · New York London, G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 156
iringly noble and beautiful. AtBourges, Reims, Paris, Laon, and Rouen, the life ofChrist, in Prophecy, Gospel, and Revelation, is thegreat theme, and the lesser subjects appear to have Symbolism 125 been chosen with broad electicism, and Amiens, asRuskin has truh said, has its great Bible. So far… … IN MORE THAN ONE OP THE OLDER CATHEDRALS OF THE ISLE-DE-FRAXCE,THE SCULPTURES ILLUSTRATE A WONDERFULLY DEVELOPED . . .THEOLOGICAL SCHEME. CHARTRES. Holy Writ from the people and held them in mereignorant subjection. To the clerics, the only classof men who had books and cared overmuch to readthem,…
Cathedrals -- France · France -- Description and travel
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