History of art . LUBECK Chapter VIII. THE EXPANSION OF THEFRENCH IDEA. HE French miracle was such a miracleindeed, that it stupefied the people ofthe cities and compelled the poor of thecountryside to come as often as theywere able to see, rising higher everyyear above the slopes of the tiled roofsand the sharp gables, the blue and gold embroidery ofthe painted stones, the blood of the stained glass glowingin the light, and the massive or tapering sweep of thetowers and the spires that vibrated with the throb ofthe bronze. Their work done, the masons and imagemakers looked upon it with as much
History of art . LUBECK Chapter VIII. THE EXPANSION OF THEFRENCH IDEA. HE French miracle was such a miracleindeed, that it stupefied the people ofthe cities and compelled the poor of thecountryside to come as often as theywere able to see, rising higher everyyear above the slopes of the tiled roofsand the sharp gables, the blue and gold embroidery ofthe painted stones, the blood of the stained glass glowingin the light, and the massive or tapering sweep of thetowers and the spires that vibrated with the throb ofthe bronze. Their work done, the masons and imagemakers looked upon it with as much astonishment asif they had come from the other end of the world to 344 MEDIAEVAL ART view it. Each one had labored in his workshop, hadmade fast a window, had cut a statue, or erected hiswall—stone on stone; each one had seen only a leafor a blade of grass in the forest; many had died, even,without raising their eyes from the bud that had grownunder their hands, from the fruit whose ripening theyhad guarded and not always had the time to now that the s
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