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 402
e multitudesof little glass medallions which were seen in the w^indows. The scenes and subjects, placed in these medallionsof various forms, were on a blue ground; and afterthe teachings had been depicted, the chief aim of theearlier mediaeval artists was to produce . . . opticaleffects, . . .… … it has been compared to a vast tiara. —BOURGES. 367 Bourges 369 left beneath the thick coating of dust which had coveredthem, others of the same opinion, not content withthis joeaceful neglect, have destroyed them, and thereare few churches which now possess such beautifulspecimicns of this phase…
Cathedrals -- France · France -- Description and travel
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