The story of art throughout the ages; an illustrated record (1904)
Reinach, Salomon, 1858-1932, Simmonds, Florence · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 115
hough difficult to analyse, inthe evolution which gave birth suc-cessively to Romanesque and Gothicart. It should be noted that down tothe eleventh century, the Northernelement was perpetually reinforced bythe afflux of new invaders, Saxon andNorman; from the eleventh centuryonward, the Syrian and… … FIG. l6l.—NOTRE DAME, PARIS, WEST FRONT. and Arabs. The GrKco-Roman ele-ment became fainter and fainter, till italmost disappeared in Gothic archi- 96 ROMANESQUE AND GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE lecture. Indeed, the principle of archi-tectural art in the Middle Ages wasnot so much the development, asthe…
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