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 284
toried sculptures, and they exemplifythe fact that incompletion is maiming to the grandeurof the Gothic. With both her arms, the Venus deMilo would, perhaps, be no more beautiful; the mindof an artist has never conceived a Winged Victorymore gloriously triumphant than that of Samothraceas it is… … LAON IS A CATHEDRAL OF COMPARATIVELY SIMPLE STYLE. ■■S6 Laon 255 present condition are so frankly incomplete that theirmagnificence is somewhat rudimentary and they areonly huge walls of secondary interest. Akin to thesquare apse-end in angularity of shape, they are alsoreasonably akin to it in…
Cathedrals -- France · France -- Description and travel
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