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History of art (1921)

Faure, Elie, 1873-1937, Pach, Walter, 1883-1958 · New York and London : Harper & brothers · leaf 353

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on thatit presents of the great architecture of nature fromwhich the human mind gathers up the elements oflogical revelation that we call invention. All thevaults have evolved from the forms that were taught usby the cupola of the heavens and the droop of the longbranches; all the columns are… … Albi (xiii Century). The cathedral. off the rain to the earth, which drinks it. The northerncountries, which are wooded and whose light is diffused,impose ornate façades on our imagination ; the southerncountries, which are bare and whose light is dazzling. CHRISTIANITY AND THE COMMUNE 327 dictate…

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