The architecture of Provence and the Riviera (1888)
MacGibbon, David, d.1902 · Edinburgh, D. Douglas · leaf 132
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… … Z)U<i: FIG. 33. SAN MINIATO. 102 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…
Architecture -- France Provence · Architecture -- France Riviera
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