Moore, Charles Herbert, 1840-1930 · New York, London, The Macmillan Company · leaf 85
s can-not be so. It is impossible for a dome to have any Gothic char-acter. In addition to what has been already said (p. 20)onthis point, it may be further remarked that, so long as the sur-faces between the ribs remain straight on plan, as in the domeof Florence, or are segments of a hemisphere,… … Fig. 27. less like the small vault of the Pazzi already described (p. 27).In such a vault there would have to be an arch (in a true Gothicvault a much stilted arch) in the circumference of the drumover the space between each pair of ribs. The crowns of thesearches would reach to a considerable…
Architecture, Renaissance
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