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 194
uries. The carved woodendoors of Le Puy are famous because of it, andthe ornament appears in English twelfth-century decorations of MSS. A sharp, crisptype of carving which spread over the Westabout the middle of the twelfth century seemsto have been imitated from Saracenic ivories.The pointed… … 192 ARCHITECTURE tecture, are found in a highly developed format Cordova in the ninth century. Theyappear first in the north as ornamentationdrawn in Saxon books from about a.d. 800.The cusped arch, or rather the lobed arch—for we may have to make a distinction if thebottom lobe is complete, or if…
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