Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy (1915)
Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924 · Cambridge [Eng.] University Press · leaf 215
or vaulting. On the otherhand if the convenience of vaulting the aisle alone werestudied the apse columns would be drawn too neartogether. At Paris the architect succeeded in makingthe bays of the apse about as wide as those of thestraight part, by the ingenious method, explained above,of… … AMIENS CATHEDRAL CH. vii] AMIENS AND BEAUVAIS 123 allowed : but at Amiens there are seven, and the result Amiensis that the apse arches are cramped and the columnscrowded too closely together. The west front (Plate XXXI), which is the work of West frontRobert de Luzarches,is a magnificent…
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