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 86
tructural engineer. Ten yearsafter Amiens the choir of Beauvais was begun,and this was finished, with the crossing and spire,in 1274. Man already had accomplished morethan he could rightly claim for his own. Here hetried for still more and failed; for twelve yearslater the spire and vault, which… … LAOX CATHEDRAL—WEST FRONT CULMINATION OF GOTHIC ART septs were built in the fifteenth century, andbeautiful as they are, it is the beauty of the artistin ornament, not of the creator of an almostliving organism, such as Chartres or Rheims. With the close of the thirteenth century allthe great work…
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