nature of faith to his intellect. (pp. 29­31)

     Panofsky then notes (p. 43) the “principle of 
transparency” in architecture: “It was, however, in architecture 
that the habit of clarification achieved its greatest triumphs. 
As High Scholasticism was governed by the principle of 
manifestatio , so was High Gothic architecture dominated—as 
already observed by Suger—by what may be called the 
“principle of transparency.” Panofsky gives us (p. 38) the 
medieval sense doctrine as stated by Aquinas: “The senses 
delight in things duly proportioned as in something akin to  
them; for, the sense, too, is a kind of reason as is every  
cognitive power .” Armed with this principle that there is a ratio 
or rationality in the senses themselves, Panofsky is able to 
move freely among the ratios that are between medieval 
scholasticism and medieval architecture. But this principle of