. Art in France. 193- — FIREPLACE IN THE GREAT HALL OF THEPALAIS DE JUSTICE, POITIERS. ART IN FRANCE. FIC. 194.—CLOISTER OF THE MtSICl-- UES STINS,AT TOULOUSE. Superb mouldings enframe the wide windows. Between these,buttresses, recessed for statues, mount to the dormer-windows, over which they throw flyingbuttresses, and on the loftyroof the stone turns andcurls in an exuberantflorescence of pmnaclesand pierced gables (). At the close of theMiddle Ages, the typesof civil architecture, man-sion and town-hall inparticular, as they wereto continue after the Re-naissance, were defini
. Art in France. 193- — FIREPLACE IN THE GREAT HALL OF THEPALAIS DE JUSTICE, POITIERS. ART IN FRANCE. FIC. 194.—CLOISTER OF THE MtSICl-- UES STINS,AT TOULOUSE. Superb mouldings enframe the wide windows. Between these,buttresses, recessed for statues, mount to the dormer-windows, over which they throw flyingbuttresses, and on the loftyroof the stone turns andcurls in an exuberantflorescence of pmnaclesand pierced gables (). At the close of theMiddle Ages, the typesof civil architecture, man-sion and town-hall inparticular, as they wereto continue after the Re-naissance, were definitelyfixed. The renovation ofarchitecture went no further than decoration; the recessed buttresseswere replaced by pilasters, and the gables by pediments. Themouldings which overrun a Gothic fagade capriciously, like thebranches of an old vine-creeper, were disciplined and transformedinto delicate bas-reliefs; but the building was not disturbed in thelogic of its organism. The men of the fourteenth century had practically ceased tobuild cathedrals; the great effort of technical invention was dra
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