A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 544
e of theperiod, and some of the most remarkable con-ventual buildings in Europe of Renaissance andpost-Renaissance architecture are of their build-ing. (See Cistercian, above.) The Carmelites, founded in Jerusalem in thefifth century, built many churches in the four-teenth and fifteenth centuries… … Monastic Auchiti throughout central and eastern France, Ger-many, Italy, and the British Isles; but theorder decayed at an early time, tlie buildingsiiave been destroyed or have passed into vulgaru.soH, and it is only in very recent timesthat the important Italian ruins liave beeninvestigated (see…
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