The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 355
cart), and flanked by the grandest towers the worldhas ever seen. It only remains to mention the sculpture judi-ciously distributed over all, and which, composed ofarcature and statuary, blended richness with restraint. Fig. 132.—Window atRheims Cathedral. 332 THE GOTHIC STYLE. So much for… … Flu. 133.—Rose window of the thirteenth century in the northerntransept of Notre Dame, Paris. carried the arches, some of whose shafts shot sheerinto the air, then burst into slender stalks supportingthe pointed vault. A long arcaded gallery, with closely neighbouredopenings, filled the second…
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