Lectures on the rise and development of mediæval architecture (1879)
Scott, George Gilbert, Sir, 1811-1878 · London : J. Murray · leaf 269
(Fig. 137). This gives us at once a new and beautiful mode ofarching, economical, and adapted to all varieties ofmaterial, giving great play of light and shade, offeringthe greatest freedom for the admission of light, andsuggesting (as we shall see) a perfectly new system ofdecoration. This… … Fig. 138. Fig. 139. Fig. 140. springing, defining the line which separates the pierfrom the arch (Fig. 138). Afterwards the orders ofthe jamb would receive pilaster capitals (Fig. 139),and finally decorative columns would be inserted in lecture vi.] MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE. 225 their place (Fig.…
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