Medieval architecture; its origins and development : with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1909)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New York : Baker and Taylor Co. · leaf 130
ces; finally, the interior passage-ways in clearstory andtriforium that had been known in Normandy from the thirdquarter of the XI century, now first made their appearance inthe He de France (111. 177). It is easier to state the fact of this Norman influence thanto explain its cause. The sexpartite… … 111. 179. — Sens. Interior SEXPARTITE VAULTS this period, was structurally and artistically preferable in everyway, as the Gothic artists a little later were not slow to recog-nize. Yet the builders of the XII century deliberately discardedit in favor of the sexpartite form — an awkward type of…
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