Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 290
g this period that the French began thedevelopment of that wonderful art of decorative sculp-ture which thev carried to so marvelous a height of artis- 262 ROMANESQUE ORNAMENT tic beauty in the portal-sculptures of their Gothic cathe-drals, at Chartres, Amiens and Reims. At first theywere contented… … the middle of the 12th century (Figure 260). By-zantine and classic influences and traditions dominate inthe earlier sculpture (Plate XIV, 3, 5) ; but the Frenchsoon impressed upon all their sculpture, whether of stat-ues, reliefs or grotesques, the stamp of their own orig-inal genius (Fig. 272;…
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