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Byzantine and Romanesque architecture (1913)

Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924 · Cambridge [Eng.] University press · leaf 404

An illustration from Byzantine and Romanesque architecture, 1913, leaf 404
theapse. There is much to study in this western fa9ade, whichcombines apparent symmetry with actual variety. Ruskinin his Seven Lamps, dwells on this : on the interestgiven by the slight inequalities in width of the sevenground floor arches ; on the narrowing of the intervals inthe wedge-shaped… … CH. xvi] PISA 245 in the third ; on the narrowing of the eight openings in Thethe top storey of all, leaving room for an angelic figure ateach end ; and above all on the variety in the height ofthe several storeys, and their subordination to the greatarcade of the ground storey. All these…

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