Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy (1915)
Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924 · Cambridge [Eng.] University Press · leaf 218
tinues, whatnobody will deny to the cathedral of Amiens, is thatit is the monument in which Gothic art has displayed theplenitude of its system and its resources, where it hasmost closely approached its ideal, where decisive solutionshave been found, and where in a word we have thetype of Gothic… … AMIENS CATHEDRAL—West Portal CH. VII] AMIENS AND BEAUVAIS 125 and the walls between them are reduced to mere curtains Amiensto enclose the building, made mostly of glass. Eachvaulting rib descends separately on its capital clear ofthe rest, and has its own separate shaft to carry it. Thewhole…
Architecture, Gothic
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