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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 74

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gion that was life itself to every artistand every craftsman, every noble and everypeasant, whose possession it was in fullest meas-ure and without distinction of class or estate.It can truthfully be said that the word Gothicas applied to the plastic arts of mediaevalism issynonymous with the word… … RHEIMS CATHEDRAL—WEST FRONT CULMINATION OF GOTHIC ART drama, and ceremonial. The modern fashion ofconfining the fine arts to painting, sculpture,and architecture is evidence in itself how far wehave fallen from the cultural ideal of the MiddleAges. Now, architecture, as I said in my first…

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