The architecture of Provence and the Riviera (1888)
Macgibbon, David · Edinburgh, Douglas · leaf 240
with transverse ribs,and originally without a clerestory, although openingshave more recently been cut in the vault. These generaldispositions are common in Provencal architecture. Butthe details of the nave piers, with their numerous smallshafts and foliated caps and bases are all borrowed from… … -^SUcif FIG. 91. ST VICTOR, MARSEILLES. universal occurrence in the churches of the South, as hasbeen already noticed, and we shall meet with otherinstances. This peculiar characteristic probably dates fromthe time of the crusades against the Albigenses in the 2l6 MEDLEVAL PERIOD. twelfth and…
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