A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 618
Window, Fig. 10: Botton Church, WiLTSHIKE ; 1250. vaulting principle had come to control tiie wholedesign, and the space beneath each wall archand between two buttresses was treated like agreat opening to be filled with glass ; but inEngland the wall still interested the builders,and a natural way… … WiNDOW, Fig. 12: The Broletto, Monza; c. 1270. umns and with no filling of any sort betweenthem. Figure 8 shows the same principle, ofsomewhat later date and with still more refinedforms. About the middle of the thirteenth centurythe traceried window had assumed the most im-portant place, and Fig.…
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