Lectures on the rise and development of mediæval architecture (1879)
Scott, George Gilbert, Sir, 1811-1878 · London : J. Murray · leaf 86
ofes-sor Willis, I have made freeuse) makes the followingstriking remarks :— It had required fiftyyears for the architects of the end of the twelfthcentury to arrive, from the still Romanesque vaultsof Autun and Vezelay, at this great result; andfrom this moment the entire construction of… … 6-1 LECTURES ON [LECTURE II. and height; the position and direction of the buttresses—the importance of their pinnacler; the strength, thenumber, and curvature of the arched buttresses ; thedisposing and the carrying off the rain water ; thesystem of covering,—all proceed from the combinationof the…
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