A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 200
<ir wholly closed by the aisle vaults,tiie interiors were hea\y and ilark, and the sys-tem did not prevail. ROMANESQUE ARCHITECTURE story walls, rising high above tiie aisles witliouta trace of buttressing, and so thick that anarcaded gallery is carried through them underthe eaves above the… … Romanesque Architectuke : a Domed Church; S. Front at Periguedx (Dordogne) ; 13th Century. Here the divergence of the French buildersfrom the German and Italian is conspicuous.The Germans and Italians, averse to buttress-ing, trusted, in Roman fashion, to sheer weightof masonry, using thick walls,…
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