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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of which the date 1220, a mentionof the first stone, and the name Robert could alone be 1 A labyrinth engraved on a pier of the portico of the Duomo of Luccahas an inscription beginning thus: HIC QVEM CRETICVS EDIT DEDALVS EST LABERINTHVS The use of labyrinths in church floors has not been explained. Viollet-le-Duc, Diet. Rats. vol. Vl, suggests a masonic symbolism: and as theyseem connected with the names and figures of architects that may be so.He says they do not occur before architecture passed into lay hands. Theywere sometimes called the road to Jerusalem, and the devout traced theroute on their knees, but only a few labyrinths were large enough for that. 2 This central piece, much mutilated is said to be now in the museumat Amiens. La Cathedrale dAmiens, G. Durand. The author points outthat Master Regnault de Cormont has made a slip in his chronology, forLouis VIII did not succeed till 1222. The inscription makes him kingin 1220. n8 Amienscathedral AMIENS AND BEAUVAIS (ch. vii
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Fig. 46. (V.-le-Duc.) ch. vii) AMIENS AND BEAUVAIS 119 read, may be taken to show that Robert de Luzarches Amiens . . 1 1 r cathedral carried the work thus far. Before the addition of the nave chapels the plan The plan(Fig. 46) was very like that at Reims. There was anave with a single aisle on each side, a transept withaisles and a choir of four bays with double aisles ending

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