Mediæval art, from the peace of the church to the eve of the renaissance, 312-1350 (1904)
Lethaby, W. R. (William Richard), 1857-1931 · London, Duckworth and co.: New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 252
t. Quentin (c. 1235). This, it seemsprobable, may be the work of Villars de Honnecourt him-self; it certainly is the contrivance of a man who had seenmuch and tried to combine many excellences. Not onlythe chapels, but the arcades opening into them, are in thiscase bowed. The vaulting of the… … Fig. 70. Church of St. Yved at Braisne, near Soissons. In this church the apse starts from a narrow secondary oreastern transept (Fig. 69). The exteriors of the huge ap-sidal chevets * of Beauvais, Bourges, and Le Mans are justas marvellous as the interiors, the great sweeping walls of * Chevet…
Art, Medieval
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