Medieval architecture; its origins and development : with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1909)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New York : Baker and Taylor Co. · leaf 349
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… … III. 219. — Clearstory of Amiens 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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