A history of art for classes, art-students, and tourists in Europe (1889)
Goodyear, W. H. (William Henry), 1846-1923 · New York, Chicago, A.S. Barnes & company · leaf 132
resswith the upper walls of the nave. The Pinnacles, which surmount the buttress, increase its weightand power of solid resistance, and also emphasize, ornamentally, itsuse and importance. The Window Tracery of the Gothic style assumes an infinite * A buttress is a piece of wall set athwart the… … 58. CATHEDRAL OF RHEIMS.
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