Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1912)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New Haven, Yale University Press · leaf 91
ual efforts to obviate this doming are a conclusive 65 THE TRANSITION proof that the raising of the crowns of the diagonals in thisearly period resulted not from a desire to ease the weight in-trusted to them, but from lack of skill on the part of the con-structors. Thus at Bethisy-St.-Pierre (111.… … III. 161. — Rib Vault at Bethisy-St.-Pierre to have given the entire vault a distorted appearance, for thebuilders of this time lacked the technique to construct segmen-tal diagonals accurately. Better solutions were found, andthis scheme was in consequence before long abandoned. More promising was…
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