Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1909)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New York, The Baker and Taylor Company · leaf 284
als, and not a particle of original carving is to befound in the entire building. Yet this material is combined inproportions which, if not delicate, still do not lack a sort of crudeimpressiveness, and the technique of the masonry is surpris-ingly good. The chapel at Aachen represented the supreme… … AACHEN among historians that this statement refers to Italy especially,as up to this time the peninsula is usually assumed to have beenthe seat of architectural culture in the West. However, con-sidering the fact that Charlemagnes model was the ancient J
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