How to know architecture : the human elements in the evolution of styles (1914)
Wallis, Frank Edwin, 1862-1929 · New York : Harper and Brothers · leaf 168
that they were not always quiteangels in the flesh, and a certainty that they existed in the flesh. The sides of the doors are recessed and panelled andstatued with patriarchs, row on row. The old floraldecoration of the Romanesque gave way almost entirelyto the human figure, and the art and… … FIG. 59—INTERIOR OF CATHEDRAL AT ROUEN HOW TO KNOW ARCHITECTURE up with their intricate multiplicity of flying buttresses,with their many arches and pinnacles, keen, nervous sup-porters of the stone-vaulted roof, each supremely fittedto its work, without a superfluous molding, but with everypart…
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