1000 Years of World Architecture: An Illustrated GuideThis volume is a guide to the main characteristics, movements and regional variants of a millennium of Western architecture, from the early Romanesque to the most recent contemporary trends. |
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Page 74
... choir resulted in interiors of great elegance and astonishing effects of harmonization . The fusion of the double - wall system borrowed from Anglo - Norman architecture with the linear grid led to stratified structures of incredible ...
... choir resulted in interiors of great elegance and astonishing effects of harmonization . The fusion of the double - wall system borrowed from Anglo - Norman architecture with the linear grid led to stratified structures of incredible ...
Page 88
... choir adopts - in a way completely exceptional to English architecture - the ambulatory , while the sinuous form of the walls makes it unique to medieval architecture . Cathedral , Lincoln , St Hugh's Choir , 1192-1205 In St Hugh's Choir ...
... choir adopts - in a way completely exceptional to English architecture - the ambulatory , while the sinuous form of the walls makes it unique to medieval architecture . Cathedral , Lincoln , St Hugh's Choir , 1192-1205 In St Hugh's Choir ...
Page 108
... choir with chapels , and elaborating a new type of choir , the Langchor , separated from the nave by a screen . Equally original were the mendicant churches built in Italy . In the Po area these were based on the local Cistercian tra ...
... choir with chapels , and elaborating a new type of choir , the Langchor , separated from the nave by a screen . Equally original were the mendicant churches built in Italy . In the Po area these were based on the local Cistercian tra ...
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