Manual of ecclesiastical architecture. Comprising a study of its various styles, the chronological arrangements of its elements, and its relation to Christian worship (1897)
Martin, William Wallace, 1851- · Cincinnati, Curts & Jennings; New York, Eaton & Mains · leaf 340
beauty in the Gothic doorway ofthe thirteenth and fourteenth centuries (Fig. 226, ^).The pillars in the jambs and the archivolts in the archwere wrought into one harmonious whole. Ornamenta-tion, also, was churchly, being statues of eminent re-ligious persons or ideal forms which illustrated… … GOTHIC PORTAI^S. and received an ornamentation of artistic forms, seldomindicative of religious associations or connected with re-ligious thought. IX. DEVELOPMENT OF THE TOWER AND SPIRE.§ Towers from the Sixth to the Twelfth Century. The campanile was a tall, slender tower, with unbrokensurface…
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