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The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)

Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 323

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Plate XXXV.—Fa9ade of Notre-Dame-la-Grande at Poitiers. *oo THE ROM XNESQUE STYLE. - ■ - . .1 * •*■ ■ ■ •1h- i :,\ … i.rv- - ici (between the lions), found in nearly all legal docu-ments of the Middle Ages. The mouldings surmounting the doorways playeda pleasing ornamental part, being generally decorated ROMANESQUE DOORWAYS. 301 with bands of zigzagged and twisted adornment, flow-ers, grimacing heads, billets,…

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