Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1912)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New Haven, Yale University Press · leaf 320
to a cer-tain extent, had masked the awkwardness of the facade in theEarly Christian basilicas, had passed out of use, and the archi-tects found themselves face to face with this problem. Theysolved it precisely as the Syrians had done, by erecting twosquare towers to flank the western gable. This… … III. 95. — Plan of the Sal-vatorskirche, Frankfurt.(From Wolff) is nothing to show Syrian influence in these cases. This mo-tive, which became one of the most brilliant and distinctivefeatures of the Norman and Gothic styles, was undoubtedlymerely re-invented by the Western builders. This idea of…
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