The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 346
ur ariseth. Later he naively describes howfor a punishment a man is unharnessed and drivenout from before the face of the holye companyc. The most salient feature of the new French stylewas the pointed arch (Fig. 127). It was not an inven-tion of the time, for pointed arches had been em- THE… … Fig. 127.—Crypt shewing pointed arches. But it is equally true that the Gothic architectsdid not copy this feature from any other style. With them the pointed arch was merely the resultof mathematical law, for the nave being- usuallywider than the distance between the piers, resulted 324 THE GOTHIC…
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