Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1912)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New Haven, Yale University Press · leaf 332
s are ordinarily circular in section; piers, on the other hand, are more often square, rec-tangular, or of some complicated form. For a jjiven area of section a column is probably strongerthan a pier; but the size of a pier can be increased so that it may be made large enough to sup-port any load.… … • - ■■;^^vi^^ llA.. !)!). — Detail of Exterior Clearstory of St. Geiieroux. (Proiii Arch. Je la Com. iles Moii. Hist.) RISE OF LOMBARD ARCHITECTURE lino;ian period, we cannot do better than to take the yearlOUO. If this date be agreed upon as marking the end of the Caro-hngian style, it must be…
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