The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 174
s aimed at, and rude attempts were made to rival the labours of the past. In these essaysit was natural that the relics of Roman art should be referred to asmodels, and plundered for materials, although as they could neitherappropriate Roman genius nor transfer Roman skill, they necessarilyfell… … of the Cathedral at Avignon, the Franks employed not only brickssimilar in form to those of the Romans, but used those which they ob-tained from the destruction of other edifices. The ground plan of the Romanesque edifices is evidently referableto the sources already alluded to, and we have in…
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