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Byzantine and Romanesque architecture (1913)

Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924 · Cambridge, University Press · leaf 208

An illustration from Byzantine and Romanesque architecture, 1913, leaf 208
nother striking feature of these Auvergnat churchesis the polychrome masonry with which they are decorated(Plate CXVI). Situated as they are among the extinctvolcanoes of the Puy de Dome, the black basaltic rockof the district is used as a freestone in their construction ;and advantage is taken of… … <-■■ . i * , r M^-ilj »

Architecture, Byzantine · Architecture, Romanesque

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