Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, and co. · leaf 218
andserve to separate the flankingchapels. The second distinctive prin-ciple of Gothic architecturewas that of balanced thrusts.In Roman buildings the thrustof the vaulting was resistedwholly by the inertia of massin the abutments. In Gothicarchitecture thrusts were asfar as possible resisted… … FIG. 107.—EARLY GOTHIC FLYING BUT-TRESS. 186 HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE. of flying half-arches and buttresses is called th^ flyiftg-buttress(Fig. 107). It reached its highest development in the thir-teenth and fourteenth centuries in the cathedrals of centraland northern France. EIBBED VAULTING. These…
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