A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 70
t, Chaumont orLangres; and as marking the southernmostboundary, Nevers, or Chateauroux. It iswithin this region that the Komanesque archi-tecture took that constructional form whichmade the growth from it of the Gothic systempossible; it is here that the Gothic construc-tion and Gothic art grew up… … Nave uf Abbey CnnRCH at Vezelay (Yonne) ; 12th Century.The seQiicircular transverse arches have sunk. Flamboyant structures were erected. It is atleast equal to any part of France in the valueand beauty of its Renaissance chateaux, and inthe importance of those few churches which wehave from the…
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