A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 104
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.… … A pan cif the clievet of tlif (.allicdral at, Ut-iins.Ilic iiniiiiitance of these pinnacles is in their colos-sal size, for each from the level surface at the topof the great buttress rises 80 feet to the finial uponits spire, and hicludes a solid basement pierced only by the waterway leading to…
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