Famous cathedrals as seen and described by great writers (1909)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930 · New York : Dodd, Mead & company · leaf 308
ative detail to ar-chitectural effect. Under these happy conditions we feelthat the Gothic of the nave, with its superior severity andsombreness, dilates into the lucid harmonies of choir andtransepts like a flower unfolding. In the one the mind istuned to inner meditation and religious awe ; in… … COMO CATHEDRAL COMO CATHEDRAL 22/ Como seems to have maintained more vividly than the restof Northern Italy some memory of classic art. MagistriComacini is a title frequently inscribed upon deeds andcharters of the earlier Middle Ages as synonymous withsculptors and architects. This fact may help…
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