The story of art throughout the ages; an illustrated record (1904)
Reinach, Salomon, 1858-1932, Simmonds, Florence · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 114
FIG. 157.—ROMANESQUE CHURCH AT ANGOULLME. {Monuments Historiqucs.) of the Middle Ages, which makes theexpression clumsy and diffuse. . Itscorrectness has also been warmly chal-lenged in England. It will be better,therefore, to, keep to the consecratedphrase. If we examine a Romanesque church … and a Gothic church, we easily recog-nise the essential differences of thetwo styles. The first is still somewhatheavy and depressed, in spite of thetowers that raise and dominate it; theimpressions most strongly conveyedby the second are those of height andlightness. In the former, the…
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