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The architecture of Provence and the Riviera (1888)

Macgibbon, David · Edinburgh, Douglas · leaf 233

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208 MEDLEVAL PERIOD. is incomplete, every detail of the portal is finished inthe minutest manner. At the top of a wide flight ofsteps rises an elevation consisting of six pillars (five plain … FIG. 88. SOUTH DOORWAY OF ST Gii.LES. (Enlarged). and one fluted) with capitals closely imitated from theCorinthian model. The bases are of unequal height, ST GILLES. 209 shewing- that the shafts have been possibly borrowedfrom an ancient source. The columns sustain an archi-trave, frieze, and…

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