Cathedrals and cloisters of the south of France (1906)
Rose, Elise Whitlock · New York London, G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 172
)iers mere small, plain bands as capitals,and for churchly decoration has allowed only a mouldingof acanthus leaves placed high and unnoticed at the vault-ings base. There is no pleasing detail and no charmingfancy; but a fine, exquisite loftiness, a faultless balanceof proportion, are in this… … LEFT DETAIL, PORTAL—ARLES. Aries. ^M and majestic beauty is not surpassed in the SouthernRomanesque. Beyond the south transept, a short passage and a fewsteps lead to the Cloisters,the most famous of Prov-ence, perhaps of France.Large, graceful, and magnif-icent in wealth of carving,they have yet…
Cathedrals -- France · France -- Description and travel
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