A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 205
d l)y the aisle vaults,the interiors were hea\y and dark, and the sys-tem did not prevail. ROMANESQUE ARCHITECTURE story walls, rising high above the aisles withouta trace of buttressing, and so thick that anarcaded gallery is carried through them underthe eaves above the springing of the… … ROMANESQITK AUCHITECTURE ; A DOMED ChUECH ; S. FRONT AT PeRIGUEU.\ (DoRDOGNE); 13th Century. Here the divei-gence of the French buildersfrom the German and Italian is conspicuous.The Germans and Italians, averse to buttress-ing, trusted, in Roman fashion, to sheer weightof masonry, using thick…
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