The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London, Bickers and son · leaf 469
iple and the application of it not only in many edifices of the Normanperiod, but even in the architectural contrivances of the most remote times.And it happened that this simple breaking up of the round arch, this sharpness of the arch, if we may use the expression, which the Normanbuilders had… … Fig. 303—Tympanum of the Portal of St. Trophimus, at Aries (Twelfth Century). dating from six or eight centuries, and which could with justice pride itselfon the most beautiful architectural conceptions. (Fig. 305.) From the twelfth to the thirteenth century the transition took place.The Norman…
Art, Medieval · Art, Renaissance
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