History of art . Albi (xiii Century). The cathedral. off the rain to the earth, which drinks it. The northerncountries, which are wooded and whose light is diffused,impose ornate façades on our imagination ; the southerncountries, which are bare and whose light is dazzling. CHRISTIANITY AND THE COMMUNE 327 dictate long, pure lines: the Romanesque endured inthe south. Water penetrates the stone of the north,changes it, mingles it with the damp mold, with themosses and rotten leaves. The marble of the south is. Sens. Rose window of the transept of thecathedral. so saturated with the sun that lit
History of art . Albi (xiii Century). The cathedral. off the rain to the earth, which drinks it. The northerncountries, which are wooded and whose light is diffused,impose ornate façades on our imagination ; the southerncountries, which are bare and whose light is dazzling. CHRISTIANITY AND THE COMMUNE 327 dictate long, pure lines: the Romanesque endured inthe south. Water penetrates the stone of the north,changes it, mingles it with the damp mold, with themosses and rotten leaves. The marble of the south is. Sens. Rose window of the transept of thecathedral. so saturated with the sun that little by little it becomesa focus of light, a source of heat as life-giving as thatwhich concentrates autumn and summer in attaches to a soil the edifice built of thestone which was drawn from that soil; it belongs to it 328 MEDIAEVAL ART as the waters and the winds and the color of the skyand the crops and the accustomed rhythm of the sea-sons. Under the pavement of the naves we get theforest underground, the thick columns plunge to thedarkness of the crypt, to permit the vertical sweep oftheir shafts and the spreading of their branches andleaves to take root in the earth. In the French cathe-dral, in its long, pale columns, we get the tremulousnessof the forests of alburnum and of birch, the light airyforests of Picardy and Champagne, and we see theirillumined branches in the flames of the stained twilight floods the nave, making the pillars seemlarger in its glow and thrus
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