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...C'est à dater du commencement du XIII^e siècle que se distinguent les compositions des soubassements de portails. Au XII^e siècle, les exemples que nous citions tout à l'heure ont plutôt le caractère de grands socles ornés que de véritables soubassements formant une ordonnance spéciale: comme, par exemple, la belle arcature des ébrasements de la porte de la Vierge sur la face occidentale de la cathédrale de Paris; ou encore la tapisserie inférieure de la porte centrale de Notre-Dame de Noyon (fig. 3); celle des trois portails de la cathédrale d'Amiens, si amplement composée...

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