Capitolo 68
The fenestration that the architect in Paris planned in 1160-70, and
repeated to Mantes, 1190-1200 were abandoned completely, and a new
system introduced, immediately after the success of Rentals in
1210.
As they is now standing, Mantes is the more old man. While conscientiously
trying to hold far street as how we am able from technique around that us
doesn't know anything and has to take care of if possible anchor less if only
ignorance would help us to feel what we don't understand, still the
conscience is happier if it earns a small sentence, founded on
what he/she thinks a fact. Also the theologians--also the great theologians
of the thirteenth century--Saint equal same Thomas Aquinas--it did
not the trust to the faith alone, or it supposes the existence of God; and that that
Saint Thomas found necessary in philosophy can be also a sure source
of the consolation in the difficulties of art. The church to Mantes is a
very first fact in Gothic art; indeed it is one of the first,;
for our purposes it will serve as the very first one of pure Gothic
churches, after the Transition and this we am said to study in his
windows.
Before one can fairly become near enough to mark the details of the
façade, one sees the great window of rose that he/she almost fills a space
twenty-seven feet in ampleness. Fanatical Gothic they commonly calculate the
the great windows of rose of the thirteenth century as the most beautiful
the creation of their art, among the details of ornament; and this
the particular rose is the direct parent of that to Rentals that it is
classical as the Parthenon, while both of them they served as you model or
guides for that in Paris that is together from 1220, those in the north
and southern cruises to Rheims, approximately 1230, and so on, from parent to
child, cultivates the rose been grown weak forever. There was without romantic doubt
roses in front of 1200, and we will see them to us, but this of rose of Mantes it is
the first Gothic rose of great dimensions, and that from that the
others grew; in his/her simplicity, his/her honesty, his/her great liberality of