The story of art throughout the ages; an illustrated record (1904)
Reinach, Salomon, 1858-1932, Simmonds, Florence · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 123
t the principle of Gothic archi-tecture led it on incessantly to in-crease the height of vaults, to enlargeopen spaces and windows, to multiplybelfries and pinnacles. The Gothicchurches of the fifteenth century areboth mannered, and alarming in theover-slenderness of their structure.^Gothic art was… … FIG. 173.—JACyUKS CU^.URS HOUSE, HOURCES. most perfect expression. Among themonuments of its later period are thebeautiful town-halls of Flemish cities(Fig. 171), which rose confronting thechurches, with belfries containing themunicipal bells, as if to symbolise thegrowth of a new power, that of…
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