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The architecture of Provence and the Riviera (1888)

Macgibbon, David · Edinburgh, Douglas · leaf 358

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enth century ; the styleof the ogee and other mouldings, and the foliage of thegriffes or claws at the angles and on the cap B, being of alate character. The form of the vaulting (Fig. 168), with itsthin groins all dying away to one sharp point at the spring-ing, and without caps or corbels to rest… … FIG. l68. LOWER CLOISTER IN CASTLE, ST HONORAT. i 334 MEDIEVAL PERIOD. brought to the island from Forcalquier. Altogether, atthis time the monastery seems to have been in greatactivity, and extensive works appear to have been thencarried out at the castle. The portion adjoining the northside of the…

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