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 404
t advance of theearly Gothic period was the return to the quadripartite vault.The advantages of this system would seem to be obvious, butit was at first adopted only with hesitation. Thus althougha quadripartite vault was built at Meaux in the late XII cen-tury, a sexpartite vault was planned for… … III. £26. — Paris. Interior QUADRIPARTITE SYSTEM the quadripartite form planned since 1163 in favor of the sex-partite system. However, notwithstanding this vacillation anduncertainty, the quadripartite form was steadily gaining ground,and by c. 1200 the use of sexpartite vaults had become…
Architecture, Medieval
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