History of art . England (xiii Century). Carnarvon Castle. profiles and curves disappeared among the tense clus-ters which they formed—a forest composed of a thou-sand dead branches without the leafage of the vaultand without space and without air above them. In theapse, where the French builder allowed the darkness todeepen, where the wall was rounded like a cradleabout the living god that it inclosed so lovingly, thewall fell away like a portcullis, permitting the light topass through the straight-lined colonnades as if theywere iron railings. The supreme expression of the English ogival sty
History of art . England (xiii Century). Carnarvon Castle. profiles and curves disappeared among the tense clus-ters which they formed—a forest composed of a thou-sand dead branches without the leafage of the vaultand without space and without air above them. In theapse, where the French builder allowed the darkness todeepen, where the wall was rounded like a cradleabout the living god that it inclosed so lovingly, thewall fell away like a portcullis, permitting the light topass through the straight-lined colonnades as if theywere iron railings. The supreme expression of the English ogival style. 354 MEDIAEVAL ART the perpendicular, appeared at the time when, amongus, the flame of stone, crackHng as it launched skyward,was announcing the last flicker of the exhausted lifearound which a fatal twilight was rapidly the one hand we have the end of a dream, on theother an affirmation of the will; on one side the abrupt. Germany (xi Century). Cathedral of Speyer. dissociation of the social forces, the defeat that comesday by day, even as mans illusions recommence eachday, the mad charges, the feverish plunging of a civiliza-tion at the point of death—and on the other side theconcentration of all the means of conquest: methodin warfare, a definite goal to attain, victory, the prac-ticed and steady rigor of a civilization that is deter-mining and establishing itself. Whereas on the oneside there is no longer anything more than ruins orabandoned works, we find pinnacles arising on theother side and spires shooting upward, the wrinkledfaçades that appear to be made of frost and glass,
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