Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1912)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New Haven, Yale University Press · leaf 52
the space betweenthe original arches, on whose edges they rested. If the introduction of the principle of the arch was an ad-vance of grave significance, the vault which followed as a neces-sary corollary was destined to bear in the future even a richerharvest. It now became possible to treat the… … iix. «. l.-r>,..Mtivt- of tlu- iMt.-rior ,.f tl„- ■IVini.l,- ul Diana. Nini.-s. l.v F. 15. Warren THE GROIN VAULT to the grandiose and monumental tendencies of Roman art,while the vault itself was capable of more sumptuous and impos-ing tieatment than a wooden roof. Thus it came about thatthe…
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