Identifier: dictionaryofarch02stur (find matches)
Title: A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909
Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architects
Publisher: New York : The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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he cathedral of Saint-Lo(Manche) ; — these are but a few of the build-ings of this time — buildings which vie withany of the florid Gothic architecture of centraland eastern France in beauty, variety, and atrue architectural sense of limitation and of re-straint in the midst of the search for splendour.They are surpassed in no respect, except by twoor three of the greatest churches of the royaldomain, as at Abbeville, Beauvais, and Saint-Riquier (for which see Part I. of this inquiry).The works of the classical Renaissance arevery alnmdant in Normandy, and are of sin-gular attractiveness ; but none of them are ofvery great size or cost. The small chateaux,or, as they might with greater propriety becalled, the manoirs, of the years innnediatelyfollow^ing the expulsion of the English, arcamong the most attractive buildings for thestudent. The time, still full of memories ofwar and civic confusion, hardly allowed of theconstruction of countiy houses without some116 Details ;l1< 0-
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