The architecture of Provence and the Riviera (1888)
Macgibbon, David · Edinburgh, Douglas · leaf 126
in itslength by circular stone arches, springing from clusteredpiers, thrown across the nave, each bay being again sub-divided by three longitudinal archivolts resting on simplepillars. The above great transverse arches do not, as in theSyrian examples, carry the roof, which is in this instanceof… … KIG. 33. SAN MINIATO. I02 TRANSITIONAL PERIOD. In the church of Notre Dame du Pre at Le Mans inthe north-west of France, there is another example of asimilar form of roof, constructed in the middle of theeleventh century. In Provence the system of vaulting generally adoptedwas of a more complete…
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