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Discourses on architecture (1875)

Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Van Brunt, Henry, 1832-1903 · Boston : James R. Osgood · leaf 349

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lopment of moral power and influence,exhibited by the lay school at the end of the twelfth century, can-not be explained by the theory that the Romanesque or monasticschools had fallen so low that an immédiate and radical reform hadbecome necessary and natural ; on the contrary, if we examine… … \ ELEGANCE OF SOME EOMANESQUE AYORK. 283 At tlie beginiiiiig of tlie twelftli century, the Cistercian building(lid not resemble tlie Cliinisian, the architecture of Poitiers had noanalogy with tliat of Xormandy, and this difFered essentially fronithe architecture of the Ile-de-France, which, in its…

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