The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 316
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… … Fig. 115.—Buttresses. banks of the Rhine ; but even among these the monas-teries of Fulcla, Hildesheim, and Ratisbon hold welltheir own as arbiters in the affairs of art; while inFrance, the cradle of the style, allthe art of every province was gov-erned by the monks, and Burgun-dy, Anjou,…
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