How to know architecture : the human elements in the evolution of styles (1914)
Wallis, Frank Edwin, 1862-1929 · New York : Harper and Brothers · leaf 173
FIG. 60 SAINTE CHAPELLE, PARIS (GOTHIC) THE GOTHIC also the climax of architectural expression—the most per-fect record of a temple to an ideal that we have. You re-member that Saint Louis died of the plague in Africa whileleading a crusade against the infidel. The spirit that un-falteringly… … UCH a spirit as fired the church builders ofthe thirteenth century could not burn withthat unparalleled glory for long—after ecstasycomes reaction. Moreover, marked changeswere taking place in the social fabric, changesin trade, in science, and in idealism, thatmust inevitably record themselves in…
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