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Letters of an architect, from France, Italy, and Greece (1828)

Woods, Joseph, 1776-1864 · London : J. and A. Arch · leaf 56

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tline, the projecting parts of which have the appearance ofribs, and branch out on the vaulting. The following sketches may serveto explain the general progress of the plans of the piers : in the firststyle they are sometimes massive cylinders ; sometimes as at a. In thesecond, they are often as at… … I have thought at times that the last mode (e) was adopted fromeconomy. It is posterior in date to the other, and perhaps might be con-sidered as forming a distinct style, but it is not accompanied with such amarked difference in the other parts as to enable me to separate it. Thecathedral of St.…

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