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 474
le explanation yet advanced sees in these shafts merelya decorative feature. Their use increased the effect of rhythmgiven by the alternate piers; they served to mark the bays inter-nally, and to accentuate the vertical lines, thus giving scale inheight and length to the building; they appeared to… … III. l!29. — Abbaye-aiix-Hommes of Caen. Interior of Nave THE SYSTEM there is little positive evidence to support it, is, on the other hand,entirely possible. The engaged shaft certainly did answer thepurposes claimed for it. Yet, in medieval art, entirely newfeatures were never evolved in this…
Architecture, Medieval
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