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 80
is faultless,and one realizes here how, whatever the vagariesof the master-mason, the great body of artificerswere always on hand to redeem primary mistakesby their conservative and assured taste andsense of beauty—a condition of things thatin a sense marks the length of road we havetraveled since… … NOTRE DAME, PARIS (Plate X from VArt golhique en France) CULMINATION OF GOTHIC ART were needed—justification. Chartres dates inthe main from 1194, when it was begun anewafter a fire that destroyed all but the crypt andthe west front, to 1260, when it was consecrated.In plan it is perhaps the…
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