Medieval Architecture: Its Origins and Development, with Lists of Monuments and Bibliographies, Volume 2Baker and Taylor Company, 1909 - Architecture, Medieval |
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abaci Abbaye abbey abbot absidioles Aisne ambulatory Amiens archivolts assigned Aube barrel vault bays long Benoist bishop building Calvados capitals cathedral central tower characterized Chartres Cher chevet church clearstory colonnettes construction covered Dame decoration Eglise Église consists Enlart erected façade Fichot flanked flying buttresses four bays France Gothic architecture Gothic period groin vault half-dome Ile de France Kersers VII later Lefèvre-Pontalis main arcade master builder medieval modern monument Morienval mouldings narthex Normandy Noyon Oise original ornament Paris piers pointed arch pointed barrel vault polygonal apse portal portions quadripartite rebuilt reconstructed rectangular choir Reims Renaissance rib vault Romanesque roofed in timber roofed in wood round arches Sarthe sculpture Seine-et-Oise Seine-Inférieure semicircular apse sexpartite sexpartite vault shafts side aisles single-aisled nave spire string-courses structure style surmounted three bays tracery transepts transitional transverse arches triforium tury wall ribs western Woillez XII century
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Page 51 - I' Architecture Fran^aise. He has therein given a profound and exhaustive illustration of Gothic. $He has shown that this architecture consists primarily in a peculiar structural system, — a system which was a gradual evolution out of the arched Roman through the Romanesque, — and that its distinctive characteristic is that the whole scheme of the building is determined by, and its whole strength is made to reside in, a finely organized and frankly confessed framework rather than in walls.
Page 417 - Histoire de la vie et des ouvrages des plus célèbres architectes du XI siècle jusqu'à la fin du XVIII, accompagnée de la vue du plus remarquable édifice de chacun d'eux.
Page 133 - Et ab hcedis me sequestra. Statuens in parte dextra. Confutatis maledictis, Flammis acribus addictis, Voca me cum benedictis. Oro supplex et acclinis, Cor contritum quasi cinis : Gere curam mei finis. Lacrymosa dies illa, Qua resurget ex favilla, Judicandus homo reus. Huic ergo parce Deus, Pie Jesu, Domine, Dona eis requiem.
Page 418 - Monumens de la France classés chronologiquement et considérés sous le rapport des faits historiques et de l'étude des arts, par le Comte Alexandre de Laborde.
Page 427 - Monuments religieux de l'architecture romane et de transition dans la région picarde (anciens diocèses d'Amiens et de Boulogne), in Mémoires de la Société des antiquaires de Picardie, 1895.
Page 183 - ... the mark of the collar ? If, again, the artisan worked long enough at any church, he naturally became attached to it, and it to him. The York Fabric Rolls show us worn-out head-masons or •Mr. Kingsley Porter (ii, 189) quotes an excellent example: "It is amusing to read in Gervase [of Canterbury] what infinite tact William of Sens was forced to employ to persuade the reluctant monks that it was necessary to destroy the charred fragments of the glorious choir of Conrad.
Page 317 - ... lecture by itself. Infinite in their variety, they are all under the same inspiration. Laon has its perfectly proportioned plan and its great scheme of seven clustering spires; Soissons has its wonderful south transept which Porter calls " one of the most ethereal of all twelfth century designs and the highest expression of that fairy-like, Saracenic phase of Gothic art that had first come into being at Noyon.
Page 426 - Rapport à M. le Ministre de l'intérieur sur les monuments, les bibliothèques, les archives et les musées des départements de l'Oise, de l'Aisne, de la Marne, du Nord et du Pas-de-Calais , par ML Vitet.
Page 51 - Romanesque, — and that its distinctive characteristic is that the whole scheme of the building is determined by, and its whole strength is made to reside in, a finely organized and frankly confessed framework rather than in walls. This framework, made up of piers, arches, and buttresses, is freed from every unnecessary encumbrance of wall, and is rendered as light in all its parts as is compatible with strength...
Page 246 - ... tota in coeli puritate, demorari, ab hac etiam inferiori ad illam superiorem anagogico more Deo donante posse transferri