Identifier: sixthousandyears01sand (find matches)
Title: Six thousand years of history
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Sanderson, Edgar, d. 1907
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Philadelphia : E.R. DuMont
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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to befound in the architecture, whose noble works men stillbehold with admiration and delight. In these, art lenther aid to religion, and in the twelfth and following cen-turies arose the glorious cathedrals and abbeys whichadorn the ancient towns and beauteous nooks of Franceand England, Belgium and Holland, Germany, Italy, andSpain. In these structures sublimity of general composi-tion is united with the beauties of variety and form, andwith intricacy of parts, and skillful effects of light andshade—all that can, in architectural effect, charm the eyeand elevate the soul. The rounded arch of the Normanstyle—imitated from the Moorish and the Byzantinebuildings—began to give place, about the middle of theTwelfth Century, to the pointed arch of what is calledthe Gothic architecture. The origin of this style is asobscure as its beauty is apparent. It was accompanied, inmany instances, with a great profusion of ornament, suchas may be seen in the beautiful cathedral of Amines, and
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>> CL, CIVILIZATION IN MIDDLE AGES 441 many similar productions of France. For three centuriesthe Gothic style prevailed, and the great cathedrals ofMilan and Cologne belong to the Fifteenth Century. Ofthese the latter has only been lately completed; that ofMilan remains unfinished yet, a wondrous dream in whitemarble, bristling with pinnacles and statues, unrivaledin its kind among all the works of men. It has been saidthat in these cathedrals of the Middle Ages the artist useda building as a book on which to express, in powerfullanguage, his own peculiar disposition, his hopes, his senti-ments, his thoughts, and his experience. The greatawakening of mind at the close of the Middle Ages ledto the wildness and exuberance of fancy displayed in therichly varied decoration of the later style; the grotesquecarvings plentifully seen in it are illustrations of fables,legends, and romances, as well as the individual expres-sions of the artists thoughts and embodiments of hiscreed. The

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