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Identifier: historyofmedival00rebe (find matches)
Title: History of mediæval art
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Reber, Franz von, 1834-1919 Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920
Subjects: Art, Medieval
Publisher: New York : Harper & Bros.
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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Fig- 3X7-—System of Abutments of the Nave ofSt. Denis. FRANCE. 511 above these corresponding to the former capitals. Figures are placedaround the soffit of the arch in deep scotias, which contrast strik-ingly with the round mouldings so prominent in the Romanic
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Fig. 318.—Fa9ade of the Cathedral of Rheims. gate-way. Dozens of these statuettes, seated and upright, are dis-posed above and beside one another, separated only by bracket 512 GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE. projections which serve both as canopies and as supports. Themany figures, intended to represent the host of martyrs and saints,render the composition unpleasantly crowded, and the forward in-clination of those near the summit of the arch gives a most inor-ganic character to the entire architectural framework. The smallfigures of the tympanon sculpture are generally confused and unsat-isfactory in effect, although they are decidedly preferable to traceryin relief, such as that above the doors of the Cathedral of Rheims.The roofs of the portals are masked by gablets, which are decoratedwith figures or tracery, besides being provided upon the edges withcrockets, and terminated by finials. Above the portals there is either an imposing horizontal row oftabernacles and statues extending across

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