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Architecture, classic and early Christian (1888)

Smith, T. Roger (Thomas Roger), 1830-1903, Slater, John, 1847-1924 · London : S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, Ltd., St. Dunstan's House, Fetter, Lane, Fleet Street, E.C. · leaf 252

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rs with half-shafts attached to them, rather thancolumns, in the arcades; they have fine bell-towers; cir- EOMANESQUE. 225 cular ^vindows often occupy the gables, and very fre-quently the walls have been built of, or ornamented with,coloured materials. The sculpture—grotesque, vigorous,and full of… … Fig. 1G7.—Cathedrai at Piacenza. Turning to Germany, we find that a very strong re-semblance existed between the Eomanesque churches ofthat country and those of Xorth Italy. At Aix-la-Chapellea polygonal church exists, built by Charlemagne, andwhich tradition asserts was designed on the model ofSan…

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