The story of art throughout the ages; an illustrated record (1904)
Reinach, Salomon, 1858-1932, Simmonds, Florence · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 117
aturc, which holds it up as if in equilibrium. The groined vault with salient ribswas first used in Italy after the eighth H THE STORY OF ART THROUGHOUT THE AGES century, by the Lombard architects,whose art, though it developed underByzantine influences, was not merelyan imitation of Byzantine art.… … FIG. 163. CHARTRES CATHEDRAL. (^Monuments Hisioriiucs.) the advance of civilisation, and thesuperstitious terrors with which theapproach of the dreaded year 1000 wasregarded, paralysed the Christianworld. When these were dissipated,a period of great activity set in,described by the chronicler,…
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