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History of art (1921)

Faure, Elie, 1873-1937, Pach, Walter, 1883-1958 · New York and London : Harper & brothers · leaf 354

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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… … Sens. Rose window of the transept of thecathedral. so saturated with the sun that little by little it becomesa focus of light, a source of heat as life-giving as thatwhich concentrates autumn and summer in fruit.Everything attaches to a soil the edifice built of thestone which was drawn from that…

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