Some account of Gothic architecture in Spain (1865)
Street, George Edmund, 1824-1881 · London, J. Murray · leaf 350
suppose every student of extremely valuable, as indeed is all that Christian art feels for what he has he writes ; and I take the opportunity done towards promoting its right study,afforded me by the aid which he has Chap. XL TOLEDO: CATHEDRAL. 243 to the old French mode.^ In these unequal vaulting… … Diagra intersection with the highest part of the transverse arch wouldbe extremely bad, and all but unmanageable. To get over thisdifficulty, we find the architect of Bourges (a.d, 1230) planninghis diagonal ribs on a curve (II) ; whilst at Chartres (a.d. 1220)the architect planned tliis rib on a…
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