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Art in Great Britain and Ireland (1913)

Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · New York : C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 57

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hether any Normanroof of timber has survived to our time.Throughout the first half of thetwelfth century the Norman formsunderwent a continual process of re-finement, on the one hand, and enrich-ment on the other. Walls becomethinner, joints closer and more carefullyworked, columns less thick,… … FIG. 57.—CHICHESTER CATHEDRAL ;NAVE. ANGLO-NORMAN ARCHITECTURE being one interested in the refined execution and decoration of awhole conceived simply as an enclosure, into one curious aboutstructure, articulation, development ; into one which saw somethingakin to the architecture of a tree in that…

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