Moore, Charles Herbert, 1840-1930 · New York, London, The Macmillan Company · leaf 294
s smallembedded dome (Fig. 32,p. 69). In Madernos partthe dome is omitted, and thespace over the aisle vaultingis left open to the sky as inSt. Pauls. But the but-tresses of St. Peters aresolid cross walls with no sug-gestion of Gothic form. Inthe vaulting of the apseWren has followed the… … Fig. 139. — Half section of the nave ofSt. Pauls. exterior as a wholelittle need be said further than that it has no relation to the realform of the building. The masking of the buttress system bythe false wall, and the application of orders without any struc-tural use or expression in harmony with…
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