Capitolo 51
everybody. Some one whom doubts has to only advance through the street of access in the
you surround in the refectory. There the architect has undertaken
expresses the thirteenth-century idea of the archangel; he has gone away
the twelfth century behind him.
The refectory that has already served for a measure of the abbot
ports, are, in to feel, as different as possible from the room. You are
fascinating columns I unload the centre dividing the room in two,
corridors at times, evidently approximately twenty-seven feet in height.
Everywhere the room was heavy and serious, the refectory was made
light and graced. Hardly a trace of the romantic rests. Only
the disdains, round columns are not grooved yet or they played the flute and them
round capitals are slightly still severe. Every detail is illuminated.
The great hearths are removed to every elegant of the room. The more anymore
interesting change is in the windows. When you reach Rentals the,
the great book of architecture will open on the word "Fenestration,"--
Fenestre,--one word as ugly as the thing it was beautiful; and then, with
pain and it is distressed, you will have to get tired himself/herself/themselves up to you he/she sees how the
architects of 1200 subordinated every other problem to that of
turning on their spaces. Without feeling their lights, you are never able,
feels their shades. These two rooms to Mont-Saint-Michel it is
antechambers to the vase of Rentals; their fenestration, in and
out it checks the whole sketch. The illumination of the refectory is
superb, but one only feels his/her value in art when you/he/she is taken in
relationship to the illumination of the room and both the service as a simple
makes a preamble to the novel of the windows of Rentals.
The refectory shows what the architect did when, to illuminate his
effects, he wanted to use every possible centimeter squared of light.
He has made nine windows; you are on the north, two on the east and one
on the south. They is almost five wide feet, and approximately winds feet