Moore, Charles Herbert, 1840-1930 · New York, London, The Macmillan Company · leaf 55
ISSANCE CHAP. an effective, though not a logical, abutment to its thrusts, andis covered with a low-pitched roof of masonry having a slightly-curved outline. Whether this external covering is connectedwith the vaulting in any way above where it parts from thecrowns of the vault cells it is… … Fig. 12. — Interior of the Pazzi chapel. be reached. It is a curious form of double vault, and differsfundamentally from the great double dome of the cathedral.The scheme as a whole is structurally inconsistent; for whilethe inner vault has the concentrated thrusts of Gothic construc-tion, these…
Architecture, Renaissance
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