The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 340
s arcusually cited as the masterpieces of the school, bothstriking in their grandeur, solidity, and amplitude;but so conventionally correct are they as regards ad-herence to French method and detail that they hardlyrequire individual description. It only remains to mention Italy, whose Roman-esque… … Fig. 126.—Cathedral at Worms. imagery peculiar to the style. The best examplesare to be found at Pisa (Plate XXXVI), Florence(Fig. 152), and Montefiascone. 318 THE ROMANESQUE STYLE. That of the south or Sicily was a singular com-bination, consisting of Norman details engrafted onthe Eastern style…
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