Faure, Elie, 1873-1937, Pach, Walter, 1883-1958 · New York and London : Harper & brothers · leaf 48
e raised up,graded pyramids, wherein the thicket of forms movesas if alive. One is tempted to say that there was noplan for the construction of these forests of gods,as they bristle like cactus and evil plants, as theypresent profiles like the backs of primitive monsters.They seem to have been… … 22 MEDL^VAL ART and their desires, to build thesecarve them from top to bottom, titanic platforms,cover them withstatues as dense as the lives of the jungle, and supportthem in space on the aerial festoon of the lacelikeogives and the inextricable scaffolding of the columns.Here are statues upon…
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