Famous Cathedrals: As Seen and Described by Great Writers - Softcover

Preface NOTHING perhaps gives the American tourist greater pleasure during his European travels than his visits to the great cathedrals. In nine cases out of ten soon after his arrival in any city or town his footsteps lead him directly to the Cathedral. The great fabric, planned and built by so many minds and hands, and representing so many periods of art and architecture, astounds, delights and entrances him and he finds himself wandering again and again in its vicinity to gaze on its sculptured portals and facade when the gray stone glows with the roseate tints of morning or evening, or when it emerges from the mist like a palace of dreams, or towers in the moonlight with fantastic effect. He likes also to study the conglomeration of buildings at different angles, now from the great western entrance, now from the apse, now from the chapter-house and cloisters, with varied views of towers, windows and flying buttresses. If the great fabric charms him from the exterior, what are his emotions when he discovers the wealth of the interior with its forests of columns, springing arches, magnificent carvings of stone and wood, and its glowing pictures of glass set in frames of exquisite tracery. Very aptly has Mr.
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