Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1909)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New York, The Baker and Taylor Company · leaf 458
ade is peculiar in that both galleriesare placed below the great rose window. The outer edges ofthe great buttresses are flush with the portals, but not obscuredby them; and the retreats of the buttresses are crowned bysplendid pinnacles. The detail of the entire composition is ofunequaled… … III. 249. — Plan of Chartres. (From Dehio) FACADE OF REIMS phantasy. Notwithstanding the exuberant wealth of detailwith which this front is adorned, the main divisions are as III. 250. — Plan of Amiens. (From Durand) strongly marked, and even more simple than those of the facadeof Paris, since…
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