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Byzantine and Romanesque architecture (1913)

Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924 · Cambridge [Eng.] University press · leaf 176

An illustration from Byzantine and Romanesque architecture, 1913, leaf 176
as well as the transverse ribs of the vault arebuilt with alternate voussoirs of white and dark brownstone, one of the few instances of polychrome masonryin France. There is no triforium, and the clerestorywindows are plain semi-circular headed openings, splayedall round both inside and out. A… … CH. xxii] FRANCE—BURGUNDY 103 in the design is a wavy—heralds would call it nebuly—ornament that runs round the wall arches, and the smallouter order, or one might almost call it the label of thetransverse arches of the nave vault. The great west doorway leading from the narthex to Vezeiay,the nave…

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