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altitude apse arcade arches resting archiolated panels arcs Arezzo arrangement baptistery Basilican churches Bologna building buttress-pilasters buttresses capitals central aisle century Chapter clerestory colonnade columnettes columns supporting compound piers consider corbel tables cornice Coro crossing cylindrical piers diagonal arches directrices dome drawn in fig Duomo entablature examples façade façade decoration Francesco gallery gallery-arcades Genoa Giovanni Gothic Gothic architecture ground Gubbio horizontal divisions horizontal members instances interior intersection Italian Architecture Italy later longitudinal arches longitudinal surface Lorenzo Lucca Maria ment nave nook-shafts octagonal ornamented panel-arcade partition walls Pavia phase pier-arches pierced Pietro pilasters Pisa Pistoïa placed plane Plate XIV pointed arches portico Ravenna rectangular blocks rectangular piers rectangular trunks ribbon-pilasters Rome round-headed arches semi-columnettes semi-columns semicircular side aisles similar simple piers spring string-courses style summit tertiary compartments Torcello towers transept transverse arches transverse surfaces triforia triforium varieties vaulting shafts Venice vertical members Vicenza wooden roof
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Page 107 - Jewish controversy, and as the question is one of general importance, it may not be out of place to offer a few remarks on the character of the angel or messenger of the Lord. Kimchi evidently took the word "T^1??, as signifying " angel," and therefore decides that he is one of that class of heavenly beings commonly designated by that name. But the first and original meaning of the word is
Page 22 - ... to restore to them their function of supporting the fabric, we shall obtain a row of columns, upon which rest visibly arches of small curvature, the mechanical construction thus becoming of use decoratively. This arrangement may be seen in the Duomo, at Narni, and has been drawn in fig.
Page 5 - There are any number of planes of decoration one behind the other : when we have in this way several arches under one, we are led, as Mr. Willis has shown, to tracery ; when we have arches of different forms one under another, we are led to foliation.
Page 4 - ... 3. The weights are divided into as many parts as possible, and these are given to independent props ; whence we have, among other results, clustered piers and pillars. 4. The diagonal pressures of the arch are displayed, whence we have buttresses and pinnacles.
Page 170 - Cathedral in every thing, except, perhaps, in length, is passed by with little concern, as it lies partly hidden by the lofty palaces of the narrow streets.
Page 201 - A signal failure was the result, for an uglier church can hardly be found anywhere. Its Eastern domes, its German spires and narrow galleries of pointed arches, make up an aggregate that could exist nowhere else. We cannot regret that it found no imitators : on the contrary, the style in the valley of the Po seems to have settled down into what is generally known...
Page 4 - Generally, the running and dominant lines are vertical in this style, as they were horizontal in the ancient styles.
Page 3 - The arch is essential, the entablature is not; and the columns support arches instead of entablatures.
Page 84 - In churches with piers having rectangular trunks, little note was taken of the introduction of the pointed arch in place of the semicircular one...