A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 205
isle vaults,the interiors were llen^•y and dark, and the sys-tem dill not prevail. ROMANESQUE ARCHITECTURE story walls, rising high above tiie aisles witiiouta trace of buttressing, and .so thick that aaarcaded gallery is carried through them underthe eaves above the sj)ringing of the vaults.The… … ROMANESQLE ArCHITECTI RE ; A Domed Church; S. Front at Pebigned.x (Dordogne) ;l.iTH Century. Here the divergence of the French buildersfrom the German and Italian is conspic\ious.The Germans and Italians, averse to buttress-ing, trusted, in Roman fashion, to .sheer weightof masonry, u.sing thick…
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