The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 470
tained to a majestj of height and a grandeur of form trulyextraordinary. If the Norman church expresses with gentle severity, and the Gothic I ARCHITECTURE. 399 churcli with sumptuous fancy, tho important and sublime doctrines of thoGospel, we must cqually allow that tho castle, iu somo sort,… … ïig 317-—The Castle of Coucy in its ancient state.(From a Miniature taken from a Manuscript of the Thirteenth Century.) a sort of éloquent boldness that the towers and the donjons shoot into theair, succeed each other at intervais, command and support each other. Itis frequently not without a sort…
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