The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London, Bickers and son · leaf 464
the choir and of the galleries, or ofthe cross, a free passage established round the apse (Fig. 300) ; and, lastly,the combination of chapels, which grouped themselves around the sanctuary.In the construction the isolated columns of the nave are sometimes replacedby pillars, the spaces between… … Fig- 300.—Notre-Dame, Rouen, ogival style. (Thirteenth Century.) was but sparingly adopted in the East, contributed to give to the churches 38o ARCHITECTURE. of the West a character and an appearance quite their own, and which theyowe particularly to those lofty towers that had become the essential…
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