The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London, Bickers and son · leaf 482
ey deceive the eye, contribute to the majesty or the solidity of thewhole ? if, finally, we were most careful not to lose any one of the multi-farious thoughts that have been fixed in the stones of the gigantic edifice ?The mind becomes confused ; and certainly the effect produced by so… … Fig. 311.—Vestige of the Architecture of the Goths Fig. 312.—Capital in the Church of the Celestins at Toledo. (Seventh Century.) (destroyed), Paris. (Fourteenth Century.) When you approach the Gothic church, when you stand beneath itslofty roof, it is as if a new country were receiving you,…
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