The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 352
architectural era that theworld has seen since the days of Pericles and theParthenon. Design was studied seriously, reverently, like anact of religious worship. Simplicity, elegance, andjudicious selection characterized the most trivial de-tail. Nature supplied the forms in the flowers by… … Plate XL.—llan of Rheims Cathedral. 330 THE GOTHIC STYLE. under the hammer, colour caught from Oriental fab-rics in the markets of Limoges, and constructiondelicate and precise in adjustment, immutable as anatural law. The plans of the churches were muchthe same as in earlier days, save that the…
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