History of art . mental forms with the silence of their depths,penetrating the openwork of the towers, and casting aveil of blond smoke over the conflagration of the stainedglass, seems to lift the cathedral above the slopes andthe plains, as it carries the heavy water of the windingrivers into the upper air, where we see the faint tremorof the trees whose leaves, shorn by autumn, are mergedby the rain with the mud of the roads. Branches move,sounds arise, and a whispering begins again when thewind has died away. At Coutances, the lines of thespires of the central tower and of the polygonal be
History of art . mental forms with the silence of their depths,penetrating the openwork of the towers, and casting aveil of blond smoke over the conflagration of the stainedglass, seems to lift the cathedral above the slopes andthe plains, as it carries the heavy water of the windingrivers into the upper air, where we see the faint tremorof the trees whose leaves, shorn by autumn, are mergedby the rain with the mud of the roads. Branches move,sounds arise, and a whispering begins again when thewind has died away. At Coutances, the lines of thespires of the central tower and of the polygonal bel-fries are characterized by the ascending movementwith which they launch upward everywhere. Theypenetrate space with a flight so pure and so bare thattheir points are lost in it like voices. Laon, from itsbase to the top of its towers, is green with moss andwild plants, the buttresses of Beauvais, which springup to a height three times greater than that of thewoods of the country, have the sound of a forest in a. CouTANCES (xiii Century). Spire of the cathedral. 330 MEDIEVAL ART storm, and the old spire of Chartres is a golden flamehung in the mist. VII Nothing in this social and natural expression isforeign to the earth and to the people from which itcame forth spontaneously. And the unity of thesymphony is the more impressive, through the vastnumber of voices that entered it, for song and prayer.
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