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 461
en more simple than those of the facadeof Paris, since there are only four, instead of five, horizontal 285 GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE divisions. It is to be noticed that the gables of the portals ofReims, unlike those of Amiens, project beyond the buttresses,and are, as it were, wrapped around them. The… … III. 251. — Plan of Reims. (From Dohio) Transept ends were usually designed on principles quitesimilar to those which governed the composition of the westfacade. Since, however, they were less important than themain front of the church, the design was ordinarily less elaborate,and the towers which…
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