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Architecture: gothic and renaissance (1880)

Smith, T. Roger (Thomas Roger), 1830-1903 · New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 137

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r, occur on the westerntowers at Andernach. The pointed arch, when adopted in Germany, was in allprobability borrowed from France, as the general aspectof German churches of pointed ai-chitecture seems to prove.The greatest Gothic cathedral of Germany, CologneCathedral, was not commenced till about… … CENTRAL AND NORTHERN EUROPE. 97 medifeval architecture, and it closely resembles French ex-amples of the same period, both in its general treatment,and in the detail of its features. The plan of CologneCathedral (Fig. 46) is one of the most regular and sym-metrical which has come down to us from…

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