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Title: Architecture for general students
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Horton, Caroline W
Subjects: Architecture
Publisher: New York, Hurd and Houghton Cambridge, The Riverside press
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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dral of Notre Dameat Paris, and that of Rheims, — the latter especiallyremarkable, and perhaps the best specimen in theworld, if we except Milan, for the unity of the plan.The two rose windows of the front are nowhere ex-celled, either in beauty of design or the richness ofthe glass, which gleams with the brilliancy of puregems. Strasbourg is remarkable not only for thewealth of ornament lavished upon the facade, butalso for its spire, rising to the height of four hun-dred and sixty-eight feet, and composed of openstone-work exquisitely finished in every part.M. Viollet-le-Duc, a distinguished French architect,says of the Cathedral of Amiens, As to plan, itis the church of the pointed arch par excellence.At first sight, the plan of the nave seems socomplicated as to defy all attempts at comprehen-sion, but a few minutes contemplation, and itresolves itself into a unity, where simplicity andelegance delight both the eye and the understand-ing. The stalls of the choir, one hundred and
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CATHEDRAL AT RHEIMS- IPUBLIC LlBRmi Gothic Architecture. 175 twenty in number, present one of the best speci-mens of medicEval wood-carving extant. They arecovered with bas-reliefs, representing historical andallegorical scenes from the life of the Virgin, andinclosed in a frame-work of geometrical designs.Gothic in the Netherlands. — The Netherlands,situated between France and Germany, was in-fluenced in architecture, as in all other things, byboth countries ; and hence the Gothic style wasnot long in finding its way into the Low Countries.There commercial wealth permitted the erection ofmany costly edifices in which was retained the sim-plicity of the earlier style. Conspicuous amongthese is the Cathedral of Antwerp. It presentsseven aisles, all constructed on the same plan, auniformity which greatly heightens the impressionof vastness, but which is again diminished by theglowing colors of Rubens, whose pictures cover thewalls of the nave and transept. Color, except as itsubdues t

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