Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1912)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New Haven, Yale University Press · leaf 479
sverse 257 NORMAN ARCHITECTURE arches, the whole matter becomes clear. At the time thatJumieges was commenced (1048), vaulted naves were unknowneven in Lombardy, but transverse arches had been thrownacross the nave for upwards of- half a century.^ In seekingmodels for their design, the builders of… … III. 130. — Section of St. Seriiiu of Toulouse. (From Dehio) with them. Now the system of transverse arches possessedgreat advantages in unifying and relieving the design; it offered,however, two great drawbacks to the northern builders: in thefirst place, it destroyed the effect of the lofty…
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