A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 573
h are filled inby flagging or flat archings. A somewhat sim-ilar species of construction covers the smallchapel of the monastery at Belem, near Lisbon ;but in the Portuguese example the fans makecomplete circuits about slender isolated pillars,meeting half vaultings from the side walls, but970… … Vaulting, Seoclassic ; Church of S. Peter, Rome ; Interior. sidcrable space, are connected by very flat,ribbed, domical vaultings. The elaboration ofthe vault of Henry the Sevenths Chapel isgreatly complicated by a series of drops from low the line of the arch to form the drop andserve as a support…
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