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 330
only horizonfal joints. Col-umns are ordinarily circular in section; piers, on the other hand, are more often square, rec-tangular, or of some complicated form. For a given area of section a column is probably strongerthan a pier; but the size of a pier can be increased so that it may be made large… … III. 99. — Detail of Exterior Clearstory of St. Generous. (From Arch, de la Com. des Mon. Hist.) RISE OF LOMBARD ARCHITECTURE lingian period, we cannot do better than to take the year1000. If this date be agreed upon as marking the end of the Caro-Hngian style, it must be clearly recognized that we…
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