Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1912)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New Haven, Yale University Press · leaf 476
xplanation yet advanced sees in these shafts merelya decorative feature. Their use increased the effect of rhythmgiven by the alternate piers; they served to mark the bays inter-nally, and to accentuate the vertical lines, thus giving scale inheight and length to the building; they appeared to… … III. 1^9. —Abbaye-aux-Ilommes of Caen. Interior of Nave THE SYSTEM there is little positive evidence to support it, is, on the other hand,entirely po8sil)le. The engaged shaft certainly did answer thepurposes claimed for it. Yet, in medieval art, entiiely newfeatures were never evolved in this way,…
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