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 68
riod was not of this nature, andthen, whatever we may say of efficient civiliza-tion, the culture of philosophy, religion, and artdid produce character of the highest, while initself it finds few rivals in the precedingcenturies or in those that have followed. From the twelfth century the… … BOURGES CATHEDRAL —NAVE CULMINATION OF GOTHIC ART founder-monks of the preceding centuries blos-somed into a world-wide monasticism that wasin general the most stimulating and beneficent in-fluence of the epoch, and closed at last in theperfect charity of St. Francis and the passionateardor of St.…
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