Goodyear, W. H. (William Henry), 1846-1923 · Meadville, Pa., New York, Flood and Vincent · leaf 195
dral. 180 KOMAN AND MEDIEVAL ART. ment or to please the eye, but the absolute and solecondition of the existence of the building. It is here that our own modern copies of the Gothicbuttresses have tended to obscure their original use.The vaultings of the old Gothic cathedrals have been sorarely… … Fig. 102.—St. Maclou. Rouen. when copies of the Gothic became fashionable in modernarchitecture, little attention had been paid to the con-structive conditions of the old buildings. It was theirappearance, not their construction, which was imitated.The sentiment which called for these imitations…
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