Word: grotesquesness
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The covered arcade is one of the most salient features of the proposed Library. Its floor will be of stone and marble, forming a simple and attractive pattern which is repeated in the brick and stone vaulting of its roof, supported by columns having specially designed capitals with animals heads...
The twelfth century ideal was embodied in the fundamental conception of chivalry. The crusades were the great event of the period, but even they did not furnish adaquate material to supply the creative spirit of the time, and with the lack of material the power of the creative spirit failed...