Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy (1915)
Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924 · Cambridge, University Press · leaf 77
theaxial line CG. The perfection of this system of vaulting at S. Denis Persistencewas only reached after many tentative experiments. It fraditionofwas some time before the builders, with the tradition of vaultln£Roman cross-vaulting still strong within them, graspedthe idea of the full liberty at… … drawn straight but on a curved line, such as would haveresulted from the intersection of two barrel vaults on acircular plan. At Langres, being used to diagonal inter- Langressections in one plane, they drew the diagonal ribs in a at e rastraight line (Fig. 17) from A to D, and C to B with…
Architecture, Gothic
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