A glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1845)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford : J. H. Parker · leaf 47
32 ARCH. … In the construction of theirarches the ancients seem, in theirprincipal bnilding8,to have usedsimple wedge-shaped stone-. or rtji/sso/rs, with nothing re-markable in their proportions;but at Autun, in Burgundy, there are the remains of an arch over an opening in a tower of - Roman work, the outer…
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