The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 315
ughthe chief architect was often nothing more than asimple monk, priests sprung from princely houses 292 THE ROMANESQUE STYLE. held it no disgrace to work under his direction, andwillingly shared in the manual toil of the masons andordinary labourers. It is doubtless owing to this humility and… … FlG. 114.—Saint-Front, at Perigueux, showing cupolas. Ion of Liege, and a few others, the Romanesque ar-tists preferred leaving monuments to names. As may be gathered from the above, Romanesquearchitecture was essentially a monastic style, just asthe later Gothic or pointed architecture was…
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