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Six lectures on architecture (1917)

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 32

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sometimes refreshing—naivete and evenbarbarism. In the North it shows itself in manyways, though here rather as a bending, not acontrolling, influence. We find it at Cluny, atJumieges, at Caen, and it is impossible now tosay how much of this persistent and wide-spreadquality may be due to the… … DURHAM CATHEDRAL—WEST FRONT BEGINNINGS OF GOTHIC ART of building alone, not types of ornament such asthe interlacing strands and the wild things fromthe forests, but an elaborate and mystical sys-tem of symbolism as well, so fully worked outthat the monk Durandus in the eleventh centuryhad it all…

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