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Title: Modern history; Europe
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: West, Willis Mason, 1857- (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Boston, Allyn and Bacon
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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raperies which they used freely could not hide their ignorance of how to draw the human body. Architecture, too, until the twelfth century, was relatively poor and rude. The style was the Romanesque, based upon old Roman remains and characterized by the round arch. The only buildings of any pretension, aside from the massive feudal castles, were churches, and the general plan for these was furnished by the old basilica. But in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the Romanesque gave way to a new French style, called Gothic; and architecture, especially in churches and cathedrals, reached one of its greatest periods. The older elements were all used, but with marvelous transformations and with important additions. Gothic architecture modified the round arch into the lighter pointed arch, and it used the old Greek column with, a new freedom and variety, adding lofty, curiously vaulted ceilings. It substituted the tower for the dome, and 1 Ancient History, § §192) PRECEDING MEDIEVAL ART. 211
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Illustration from a Late Medieval Manuscript (fifteenth century), showing in the foreground Maximilian of Austria, Mary of Burgundy, and their son Philip. —After Lacroix, Vie Militaire. 212 THE RENAISSANCE, 1350-1550. (§192 added, perhaps from the Saracens, heaven-pointing spires. By the use of the new flying buttress, strength was gained, so that it became safe to pierce the walls with row upon row of tall windows, giving the effect of lightness and complexity. New opportunities for ornament were found in the tracery, or open-

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