The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 452
theflorid Norman. In short, let us repeat it, the Norman style, grandiose in its austerity,still quiet and compact even in its richest phantasy, was on the eve etindividuaUsing for ever, perhaps, Christian architecture ; its rounded arches,uniting their fuU soft curves to the simple profiles of… … Fig. 302.—Notre-Dame la Grande of Poitiers (Twelfth Centur>). 3 «4 ARCHITECTURE. elevated calm of liope and the humble gravity of faith. But lo ! the ogivesprang up ; not, indeed, as certain autliors hâve thought tliey were riglit iiiafErming, from an outburst of spontaneous invention, for we…
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