How to know architecture : the human elements in the evolution of styles (1914)
Wallis, Frank Edwin, 1862-1929 · New York : Harper and Brothers · leaf 162
e wallsand buildings often razed,but the church, represent-ing a power which theconqueror recognized asinviolate, was most fre-quently used as a sanctu-ary, and was not often destroyed. It had frequently tobe defended, however, and these utilitarian motifs or de-tails were of service in giving… … FIG. 55 CARVED CORNER-POST AT SENS, FRANCE Domestic Gothic, showing early-Renaissance influence HOW TO KNOW ARCHITECTURE There is still some domestic Gothic work in the oldcities of France remaining to us, but modern progress andthe necessities of war destroyed most of the vast amountthat once…
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