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A history of architecture in all countries, from the earliest times to the present day (1874)

Fergusson, James, 1808-1886 · New York, Dodd, Mead · leaf 298

An illustration from A history of architecture in all countries, from the earliest times to the present day, 1874, leaf 298 — d throughit, by counter-sinkings in the roof, as ..^J^^j^g*™suggested by the hypaethron of Greek temples (Woodcuts Nos. 150,153). The objects are so dissimilar thatit is difficult to institute a very distinct comparison between the syna-gogue and a contemporary Gothic church of the same… … 278 SPANISH ARCHITECTURE. Part li. having, a vault, and consequently forced the architects to work andthink — the very difficulty of the task being thus the cause of itssuccess. The Saracens in Spain, on the contrary, never attemptedeither a vault or a dome, but were always content with an…

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