Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous, General & Miscellaneous Essays
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Hence the splendour, the space, the novelty, of the great French cathedrals in the first Pointed style, monuments for the most part of the artistic genius of laymen, significant pre-eminently of that Queen of Gothic churches at Amiens. In most cases those early Pointed churches are entangled, here or there, by the constructions of the old round-arched style, the heavy, Norman or other, Romanesque chapel or aisle, side by side, though in strong contrast with, the soaring new Gothic of nave or transept. But of that older [111] manner of the round arch, the plein-cintre, Amiens has nowhere, or almost nowhere, a trace.Book Details
Published
September 10, 2010
Publisher
Kessinger Publishing Company
Pages
124
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9781169252233