History of architecture, from the earliest times; its present condition in Europe and the United States; with a biography of eminent architects, and a glossary of architectural terms (1848)
Tuthill, Louisa C. (Louisa Caroline), 1798-1879 · Philadelphia, Lindsay and Blakiston · leaf 186
e term Norman,though in some respects they vary considerably.Thus we never find in German churches, the pon-derous cylindrical piers which occur in Englishbuildings.* At Lorsch, near the Rhine, a building still exists,which was part of a church consecrated in 774 in thepresence of Charlemagne. In… … LOMBARDIE CHURCH AT COLOGNE. IN ITALY. 147 Romanesque. The three colossal cathedrals of theUpper Rhine, Worms, Mentz, and Spires, are Roman-esque on a scale unrivalled in England. There was no unity in this style, as in the Gothicthat succeeded it: the Ionic volute, and Corinthianacanthus, are…
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