Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1912)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New Haven, Yale University Press · leaf 378
iguredthe walls and piers of Chartres, Chalons-sur-Marne, and manyanother Gothic church with plaster coatings of the worst imag-inable style; the vandalism of the Wars of Religion and of theRevolution has destroyed the priceless sculptures, and — mostirreparable loss of all — the stained glass of… … 111. Jl!). Clearstory ul Auiieiis GOTHIC DESIGN remains to us, incomplete, fragmentary, ruined; a broken torsoof a statue unfinished by the master, and only half completedby weaker hands. And yet, far as it falls short of its possibil-ities, its mutilated fragments, like the shattered marbles…
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