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Byzantine and Romanesque architecture (1913)

Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924 · Cambridge, University Press · leaf 19

An illustration from Byzantine and Romanesque architecture, 1913, leaf 19
i Aix-la-Chapelle Theexterior Among the capitals some are antique Corinthian, butmost of them have been renewed : and of the columnswhich were carried off by French invaders to Paris notall have come back. The exterior has now a monstrous fluted dome oftimber and slate, somewhat grotesque : but… … 100 -teet. Fig. 64. The metalwork much alike outside as well as inside. Further evidenceof Italian or Italo-Byzantine workmanship is afforded bythe mouldings of the cornices, which are rather clumsyversions of classic detail. The old bronze doors of the west and north entrancesstill hang on their…

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