The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 326
FlG. 119.—Church of St.-Gilles, in Languedoc. whom also we owe the introduction of the blind ar-cades mentioned above and well represented in theCathedral at Pisa (Plate X KXV1.. No cornice ever beetled above Romanesque build-ings, but a plain parapet, with often a row ol blocksbeneath, stretched… … a.a U £o u -a > X XXw H 3°4 THE ROMANESQUE STYLE. Sometimes these blocks supported-small arches (Fig.121). These features were called tablets or corbeltables. In early Christian times the basilicas had de-pended upon the columns plundered or copied from
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