A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 175
vaulting, but the system called sexpartitevaulting might also be used. It has been said above that the arch at ACin Fig. 2 and in Fig. .3 woulil be a jjlain pointedarch without a boss. This kind of arch be-came, then, the natural form for an opening GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE toward tlie outer air, such… … 60THIC Architectike: Fig. 4. The Sainte-Chapelle from theSouthwest; 1243-l:i47 a.d. ing boldly between them. In like maimer, tiieinterior became a forest of slender stone piers,engaged like pilasters or detached like columns,with jjointed arches rising from them. Thecharacteristic pointed arch…
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