History of art . verticalflight toward the sky, and the façades are covered by alacework of leaves and branches. Sometimes the porchesare inscribed in the walls, at other times they bristlewith pediments, spires, and pinnacles. The rose win-dows may be circular or flame-shaped, the number andthe disposition of the towers vary endlessly—now theyare cut into by high windows, now designed with clus-ters of colonnettes like wheat sheaves, or again theypass by insensible transitions from the square to thepolygon and from the polygon to the cone. Buteverywhere the flood of the animated forms and inn
History of art . verticalflight toward the sky, and the façades are covered by alacework of leaves and branches. Sometimes the porchesare inscribed in the walls, at other times they bristlewith pediments, spires, and pinnacles. The rose win-dows may be circular or flame-shaped, the number andthe disposition of the towers vary endlessly—now theyare cut into by high windows, now designed with clus-ters of colonnettes like wheat sheaves, or again theypass by insensible transitions from the square to thepolygon and from the polygon to the cone. Buteverywhere the flood of the animated forms and innu-merable aspects of life permits the logic of the functionand the rationalism of the mind to appear —and here the miracle is perhaps more surprising—when three centuries and four or five styles havemingled the Romanesque and the Gothic in a simplemonument, the whole indivisible world of sentimentsand sensations that it presents enters in a mass, andforever, into the immutable order of the Bagê (Ain) (xii and xiii Centuries). Belfry of the church. 306 MEDIiEVAL ART In reality, when France was covering with living flesha framework so logical that it fixed the form of themonument in its every detail, she was still pursuing
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