The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 317
rien-tal monuments which they had seen ; and, as thesegentry contributed largely toward the erection of 294 THE ROMANESQUE STYLE. churches, we find cupolas on pendentives used almostexclusively in servile imitation of St. Sepulchre, andexhibited triumphantly in St.-Front, at Perigueux(Fig. 114),… … FlG. 116.—Norman groined roof. final solution of the problem and the success of thestyle. The first effort was naturally made with a cir-cular tunnel vault, or barrel vault, as it is sometimescalled, but when this was placed over a nave its nat-ural tendency was to push outward the walls onwhich it…
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