Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy . ed bytwo rich bands of arcading have a magnificent breadthof effect. The towers, no doubt, were to have had loftyspires of stone, but I think they are just as well withoutthem. Their present square tops suit the general hori-zontality of the design, which is strongly emphasized,and in which we may trace the last expression ofRomanesque tradition. There is also no doubt aRomanesque feeling in the great colonnades of the naveand aisles within the church, in the low proportion ofthe arcade, and the greater importance given to thetriforium galler
Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy . ed bytwo rich bands of arcading have a magnificent breadthof effect. The towers, no doubt, were to have had loftyspires of stone, but I think they are just as well withoutthem. Their present square tops suit the general hori-zontality of the design, which is strongly emphasized,and in which we may trace the last expression ofRomanesque tradition. There is also no doubt aRomanesque feeling in the great colonnades of the naveand aisles within the church, in the low proportion ofthe arcade, and the greater importance given to thetriforium gallery, but this disproportion would have been 1 These rose openings were found by him during the restoration, andbetween the publication of the first and second volumes of his DictionnaireRaisonni. Compare the elevations in vol. I. p. 192, with those in vol. 290, 291. 2 These lights seem to be designed by MM. Lassus and Viollet-le-Duc,without any guidance from what they found, v. Marcel Aubert, La CathedraleNotre Dame de Paris, p. 52. Plate XII. NOTRE DAME PARIS South Aisle o\ Choii ch. v] EARLY FRENCH GOTHIC 85 less marked when the range of rose openings ran along the gallery and the clerestory. Their removal Damehas altered the whole scheme of proportion between thestoreys. Be this as it may there is no nobler interior inFrance than that of Notre Dame, and the views in theaisles when the defective proportion is not seen, are asfine as we could wish (Plate XII)1. If we look round France and compare the work at iiedeParis with what was being done in the provinces while comparedNotre Dame was rising, we shall be struck with the providesgreat advance made in the architecture of the Royaldomain. At Autun and Vezelay we still find Romanesqueconstruction, and semi-classical details. In Auvergnethe local round arched and barrel-vaulted style was infull swing. At Perigueux the domes of S. Front wereonly just finished ; and the Romanesque fronts of Ariesand S. Gilles w
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