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Assisi : impressions of half a century (1919)

Richmond, W. B. (William Blake), Sir, 1842-1921 · London : Macmillan · leaf 243

An illustration from Assisi : impressions of half a century, 1919, leaf 243
isible from the atrium. Thewindows are in the head of the cross which forms the ground-plan, I suggest that they may symbolize the Three Persons ofthe Trinity. The windows are of equal size, but of unequalnumber, and they were the cause of the lighting of the originalchurch before the side chapels… … The Church of St. Francis are three commanding lights, like eyes shining white from the umbrage of the deep-blue vault, and slightly refracting on to a grey stone pavement. The cave-like tunnel is saved from perpetual gloom by the penetration of the sun through the windows in the afternoons, and…

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