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Byzantine and Romanesque architecture (1913)

Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924 · Cambridge [Eng.] University press · leaf 445

An illustration from Byzantine and Romanesque architecture, 1913, leaf 445
an in motive asthose of Avallon or V^zelay. The Roman-esque of Nor-mandy and Eng-land, for reasonsthat have beenalready explained,shows but littletrace of classic in-fluence except inits stubborn ad-herence to theround arch, duemainly to the na-tural conservatismof the monasticorders. There isa… … Fig. 148. hardly make his arches pointed enough ; there is nothing CH. xxix] BYZANTINE AND ROMANESQUE 265 beyond the seas like our sharpest lancet work; and ouradoption of the round abacus put an end to all possibleimitation of the Corinthian capital, which lasted longerin France where the square…

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