A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 363
th or CloisterGarth ; it is sometimes used as a garden, some-times merely as agi-ass space ; andsometimes a foun-tain for ornament,or the supply ofwater is locatedwithin it. Cloisters of theGothic age arestill numerous inEuro])e, and areoften veiy beau-tiful ; the oppor-tunity artbrded bythe… … CLOISTERED ARCH Some few iustames of still earlier treatmentexist, as in the famous Romanesque cloister ofS. Tropliirae at Ai-les. After the Gothic eijochfewer cloistei-s were built, apparently becauseof the number ahead}- existing, but some inter-esting neodassie examples are to be found inItaly,…
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