Fig. 307.—Notre-Dame, Paris (Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries).
View of the principal Façade before the restoration executed by Messrs. Lassus and Viollet-le-Duc.
Fig. 308.—Interior of Amiens Cathedral. (Thirteenth Century.)
with what art its various parts are arranged, grouped, placed at certain intervals from each other; we must seek to discover the contrivance by virtue of which the immense évidage (sloping) of numerous buttresses, the height of the towers, the retiring of the laterals, and the curve of the apse are harmonised; we must enter the church and stand in its nave, with its interminable delicate ribs—how many clusters of small columns extend above the slender pillars!—we must contemplate the beautiful fancies of the rose-windows, which by their many-coloured glass sober down the glare of the light passing through them; we must gain the summit of those towers, those spires, and from them command the dizzy extent of aërial
Fig. 309.—Capital of a Column in the Abbey of St. Geneviève (destroyed), Paris.