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Architecture : an introduction to the history and theory of the art of building (1912)

Lethaby, W. R. (William Richard), 1857-1931 · New York : H. Holt and company · leaf 170

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Fig. 37. … THE EASTERN CYCLE 167 in Fig. 38. Venice seems to have received thecusped arch directly from the Arabs, and notlike the West from the Moors. It is verycurious that in the late MiddleAges Eastern arches becamelow with a quick curve at thebottom and the rest nearlystraight, like our Tudor arches. No…

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