Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy . le vaulting shaft, descending to the intrudedcolumn, cuts it in two (Plate XXXIV). Never was anaccident more fortunate, for it is the narrowness of thebays, and the new proportion given to the triforium andclerestory that makes this interior unlike any other, and Partlyaccidental 1 I cannot help quoting a letter I had in 1896 from one with whosejudgment I have always been glad to find myself in accord, my late friend,Richard Norman Shaw. I am so pleased to hear that you like Beauvaisso much, as I like it have not seen it for fifte
Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy . le vaulting shaft, descending to the intrudedcolumn, cuts it in two (Plate XXXIV). Never was anaccident more fortunate, for it is the narrowness of thebays, and the new proportion given to the triforium andclerestory that makes this interior unlike any other, and Partlyaccidental 1 I cannot help quoting a letter I had in 1896 from one with whosejudgment I have always been glad to find myself in accord, my late friend,Richard Norman Shaw. I am so pleased to hear that you like Beauvaisso much, as I like it have not seen it for fifteen or sixteen years,but I know the outside fetched me immensely. And why it is so fine, andwhy Cologne (that I was looking at the other day) is so hideous, is noteasy to say, except that it looks all right at Beauvais and all wrong atCologne. Street would never listen to Beauvais,—said it was not to becompared to Amiens,—and shut me up sharp. I shall go again and see itperhaps this year; I have been wanting to go for ever so long. Plate XXXIII. BEAUS AIS CATHEDRAL Plate XXXIV
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