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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 109

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Pontoise or Sens; but if so, it is probable that these vaultforms were discovered in some other edifice now lost to us, forat St. Denis the technique shows none of that timidity and hesi-tation which almost inevitably characterized a first attempt atnew forms. About the same time that the… … III. 167. — Diagram. Broken Rib Vaults that subsequent ambulatories were all erected on a broaderplan, difficulty had been experienced only with the outside wallrib. Already in Romanesque times, if the restorers of the naveof Morienval are to be trusted, the experiment had been triedof springing…

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