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Ruskin had been at Amiens in August 1844, October 1848 (Works, 8.xxixfn) and September 1849 (Works, 5.xviifn [n/a]). At Works, 8.12 in the preface to the second edition of Seven Lamps of Architecture it is together with Bourges, Paris, Chartres, Reims and the transepts of Rouen an example of the ‘only style proper for modern Northern work’, and at Works, 12.491 it is an example of the ‘purest Gothic in the world’.
Amiens cathedral is treated in Notebook N which contains up to page 19 ‘notes of some value on Amiens, made in 1849 when coming back from Swiss journey with my father & mother’. See Notebook M p.17 for a comparison with the cathedral at Monza. At Notebook M p.188 there is a reference to the trumeau of the mid-thirteenth century South Transept Portal of the cathedral at Amiens. The crowned Madonna has an angel at each side of her head. See Notebook M2 p.163 where the figures at the Academy Door in Venice and at Amiens are compared with similar figures at the cathedral of St. Maurice, Vienne.
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