Maison au Mans

Maison au Mans

English: Legend: Le Mans Timber houses in the Grande Rue Identifier: historicalmonume1955hunn (find matches) Title: The historical monuments of France Year: 1898 (1890s) Authors: Hunnewell, James Frothingham, 1832-1910 Subjects: ArchitectureCathedrals Publisher: Boston : Houghton, Mifflin and Company Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: is wonderful. It is sur-rounded by two aisles, the outer with eleven apsidal chapels,and the inner, very lofty, with a rich triforium and clerestory.Above the latter rises the great clerestory of the main portionof the choir. The windows, in all parts, have richly coloredglass. The whole effect combines splendor, airiness, and vast-ness. In the Lady Chapel are remains of polychromatic orna-ment, with which it once was covered. The high altar, stalls,and pulpit (in the nave) are modern and very plain. Thereare now few monuments, but those are interesting. Quaint and narrow streets lead up and down around thewestern portion of the town, and show some old-time stylesof living and of lodging. These streets extend to the Mar-ket-place, a rather large and busy one, more odd than pic-turesque ; and others, that have a modern aspect and goodshops or better houses, lead to the church of Notre Bame de laCouture. It has a choir, begun about 990, but built chiefly in TtinB# m tlif Qtimini Rue r, Text Appearing After Image: -r^. ZSiiT^.v ^ (il_ ^~7 TryMiiijT .t^ZJ^>l _ JlflT^ P. NOTRE dame; history. 237 the thirteenth century, in a transition style. It is large enoughfor a cathedral, and indeed is larger than are several cathedralsin the country. Its western front, in early Pointed style, is ofgreat size, and has two great towers that rise not far above theroof, and a deep, sculptured portal, also large, all of a bolddesign. The nave is large, and has no aisles. The apsidalchoir shows an arcade of early date, with now fresh but ratherrude stone-work, and ugly bastard Gothic piers and arches;these last were raised to strengthen central portions of thebuilding. In an eastern chapel of the southern transept is avery rich, high Renaissance altar-piece of white and coloredmarbles. The church formerly belonged to a large monastery,minor edifices of which now form the Prefecture, in which is amuseum and a library. Le 3Ians, like many other old French cities, was a Gallo-Roman place of importance. Some remain Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.

Maison au Mans

Maison au Mans