. How to judge architecture : a popular guide to the appreciation of buildings. eval Design bring to such a monument is then very dif-ferent from that which we give to the in-teriors of the great Gothic churches shownin the plates of Chapter IV, or to the many-other beautiful naves and choirs of thethirteenth and fourteenth centuries in Eng-land, France, Spain, and Germany. AtEly and Salisbury, Bourges and Laon,Burgos and Gerona, Cologne and Vienna,the student enters a great church, whosevault was completed at any time between1200 and 1400, with perfect certainty thatthe structure is as sincer
. How to judge architecture : a popular guide to the appreciation of buildings. eval Design bring to such a monument is then very dif-ferent from that which we give to the in-teriors of the great Gothic churches shownin the plates of Chapter IV, or to the many-other beautiful naves and choirs of thethirteenth and fourteenth centuries in Eng-land, France, Spain, and Germany. AtEly and Salisbury, Bourges and Laon,Burgos and Gerona, Cologne and Vienna,the student enters a great church, whosevault was completed at any time between1200 and 1400, with perfect certainty thatthe structure is as sincere and obvious as itis impressive ; nor does any doubt enter hismind as to the utility of the members ofthe structure around him. It is only withthe beginning of the florid Gothic that thiswholesome frame of mind can no longer beretained. Let us consider the church of Brou,standing close to the town of Bourg-en-Bresse, in southern Burgundy. It was notbegun until about 1510 : that is to say, itsconstruction is contemporaneous with theearlier years of Henry VIII in England, [m].
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