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History of mediæval art (1893)

Reber, Franz von, 1834-1919, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920 · New York : Harper & Bros. · leaf 240

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it an imposing character. The decagonalsubstructure forms ten niches of rectagonal plan, one of which pro-vides the entrance to the cross-shaped funeral chamber. The roundarches of these niches show a joggling of the voussoirs rare in Ro-man architecture, this refinement appearing also in the… … Fig. 109.—Capital from the so-called Palace of Theodoric. 206 THE CHRISTIAN ART OF THE NORTH. double shafts, which has now disappeared. Traces of the curvedjuncture of its ceiling with the walls are still visible, these indicatingthat it was not a regular vault, but a combination of ceiling…

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