Capitolo 43
Gothic that the choir of the Church of Abbey above of (1450-1521), unless
it is the fleche of the north of Rentals Cathedral (1507-13); and if You
it will look down at the vase, through the triumphal arcs in the
choir pointed four hundred years more modern, you can judge if
there is some true discord. There are for those that feel the art,
anybody; the strength and the grace connect hands; the man and love of woman
each other still.
The difference of sex is not imaginary. In 1058, when the triumphal one
columns were building, and Taillefer sang the Bastard to William and
Harold the Saxon one, Roland anchors it begged his "mea culpa" to God the
Father and it didn't give a thought to Alda his/her fiancé. In the twelfth one
century Saint Bernard recited to memory "Ave Stella Marts" in an ecstasy of
miracle in front of the image of the Virgo and the armies of France in
battle cried, "Notre-dame-Saint-Denis-Montjoie." That that the Roman
you/he/she could not express in bloom in the Gothic one; that that the masculine mind
you/he/she could not idealize in the warrior, it idealized in the woman; no
architecture that you/he/she is ever grown on the earth, omits the Gothic one, it gave this
effect of flinging his/her passion against the sky.
When men anymore the felt the passion, they fell again on them,
or it lowers. The architect returned to the round arc, and also subsequently
to the the plain being of the Greek colonnade; but this was not the guilt
of the twelfth or thirteenth centuries. Their thing they had to tell them
says; their thing they felt them they expressed; and if the seventeenth century
forgets him/it, the twentieth one to turn has forgotten the seventeenth one.
History is only a catalog of the forgotten ones. The eleventh century
it is anybody worse street that his/her neighbours. The twelfth one is, in
architecture, rather better street that the nineteenth one. These two
rooms, the Aquilons and promenoir of which you/they mark the beginning the
Transition, is, on the whole one, more modern than Saint-Sulpice, or The
Jesus in Rome. In the same situation, for the same purposes any