Identifier: gothicarchitectu01jackuoft (find matches)
Title: Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924
Subjects: Architecture, Gothic
Publisher: Cambridge, University Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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s or builders. But in Italy,where the artists name more generally survives, theyare all laymen, and so are those whose names have beenpreserved in France during this period3. 1 Luchaire says it was begun about 1170, others put it 20 years later. 2 It is curious that M. Luchaire should draw an opposite conclusionfrom this fact. 3 M. de Lasteyrie mentions Isembardus at Bernay, Rencon at Tournus,Umbertus at S. Benoit sur Loire, in the nth century, and in the 12th,Renoldus at S. Savin, Brunus at S. Gilles, Gofredus at Chauvigny, Gilebertusand Gelduinus at S. Sernin Toulouse, Willelmus Martini at S. Andre le basVienne, Constantin de Jarnac at S. Etienne Pe*rigueux, Giraud Audebert atS. Hilaire de Foussay, Rogerus at Chartres Cathedral. Monkish artists, hesays, are always styled Frater, etc. Archit. Relig. en France a VEpoqueRomane, p. 237. v7 60 EARLY FRENCH GOTHIC (CH. IV s.Denis In the abbey church of S. Denis (Fig. 19), we first find something like a fully developed Gothic construction.
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Fig. 19. This is so well understood, and the work is so intelligentlyplanned on the new system, that it is obviously the out-come of continued experiment, and the climax of a series ch. iv) THE TRANSITIONAL PERIOD 61 of less perfect predecessors ; but the general opinion s. Deniscannot be far wrong that here for the first time, at allevents on a grand scale, we find the development ofGothic architecture. The old church of Dagobert, founded in 625, hadbeen reconstructed by Pepin-le-Bref, and apparentlyagain rebuilt in the 11th century. It was however stillsmall and inconvenient. Suger says, we would fain hopewith picturesque exaggeration, that the women withmuch pain, clamour, and tumult ran to the altar over themens heads as it were on a pavement1. The newchurch was built with extraordinary and, as it has turnedout, injudicious speed. Viollet-le-Duc suggests that Suger,conscious of the decline of monasticism, was in a hurryto show to the world an abbey in the van of progress,instead o

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