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 477
ansverse 257 NORMAN ARCHITECTURE arches, the whole matter becomes clear. At the time thatJumieges was commenced (1048), vaulted naves were unknowneven in Lombardy, but transverse arches had been thrownacross the nave for upwards of half a century. In seekingmodels for their design, the builders of… … III. 130. — Section of St. Seniin of Toulouse. (From Dehio) with them. Now the system of transverse arches possessedgreat advantages in unifying and relieving the design; it offered,however, two great drawbacks to the northern builders: in thefirst place, it destroyed the effect of the lofty…
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