Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène-Emmanuel, 1814-1879, Van Brunt, Henry, 1832-1903 · Boston : James R. Osgood · leaf 262
a Roman room or basilica, witli a nave and two aisles, covered by awooden roof. When the Romanesque architects desired to replacetliis roof by a vault, they gave, as in B, greater thickness botli to thedetached piers witliin and to the longitudinal walls. But thèse pré-cautions were found to be… … DU THEATRE DE MARCFLLU5 ROME) i TRAÎS^SEOEMATIOXS OF THE BASILICA. 211 thrusts of wliicli they projected exterior buttresses. Theii, findingtliat tlie longitudinal walls between the buttresses were useless, theyariived at the plan D. In reahty, the édifice occupied only the spacebetween E F. The…
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