Cram, Ralph Adams, 1863-1942, Hastings, Thomas, 1860-1929, Bragdon, Claude Fayette, 1866-1946 · Chicago, Ill., Pub. for the Art Institute of Chicago by the University of Chicago Press · leaf 174
basilicas of Rome tell us more of thegreat constructive genius of the early republicand the empire of the Caesars than the frag-mentary and contradictory annals of wars andpolitical intrigues. The unsurpassed and inspir-ing beauty of the Gothic cathedrals whichbewilder us, and the cloisters which… … APSE OF CHURCH OF ST. PIERRE, CAEN MODERN ARCHITECTURE grandeur which the so-called Dark Ages of thehistorian have failed adequately to record; andin America, even amid the all-absorbing work ofconstructing a new government, our peoplefound time to speak to us of today in the silentlanguage of…
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