A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 103
Ox-ford C.\THE-dral; c. 1220. PINNACLE It is most wiilcly u.scd in morti.se-and-tenonframing, ami rlic bke. (Compare Bolt.) PINACOTHECA. In classic architecture,a building for the preservation or exhibition ofpictures ; in modern use, a gallery of painting.(See Pinakothek.) … Pinnacle. Ioiaf.r of CuitancesCathedral. Normandy, abootli:!0, with Pinnacle of UnusualSize. The PINAKOTHEK. A building for the exhi-bition of paintings, the term having been putto use in Munich to denote the two importantpicture galleries known, respectively, as theNew and the Old Pinakothek.…
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