How to know architecture : the human elements in the evolution of styles (1914)
Wallis, Frank Edwin, 1862-1929 · New York : Harper and Brothers · leaf 177
s entered the lists in this fascinating gameof romance. We can only envy them. Here again ar-chitecture tells the story of the time in its expression ofthe gallantry of the knights and the charm of their fairladies, and it tells it without equivocation, very gracefullyand aptly. Froissart, in his… … FLAMBOYANT GOTHIC high ideal from the honor of chivalry to the license ofchivalry and the parallel decadence of the monuments tothe dominant ideal as it became less spiritual. But thatthe ideal still had power to move men to create beautifulthings, we have ample proof. The churches were still…
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