De Forest, Julia B. d. 1910, Caffin, Charles Henry, 1854-1918 · New York, Dodd, Mead · leaf 214
egan to realise thata given amount of wall, concen-trated in piers and buttresses,had a greater supporting powerthan the same amount of walldistributed evenly the wholelength of the building. During the late Romanesque period the piers were already beingmade lighter, and Gothic architects became… … GROUND-PLAN OF THECATHEDRAL OF AMIENS 186 A SHORT HISTORY OF ART another step in the same direction. The mouldings of theribs of the vaulting developed in a style that correspondedwith the perpendicular mouldings of the piers. The ground-plans of the piers, and the profiles of the ribs of the…
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