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 60
... Italy , most of all in the central and southern regions , this conservatism showed up primarily in the flat roofs given to basilicas , a custom that held on throughout the 13th century . Vaulted churches were more or less unknown in ...
... Italy , most of all in the central and southern regions , this conservatism showed up primarily in the flat roofs given to basilicas , a custom that held on throughout the 13th century . Vaulted churches were more or less unknown in ...
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... Italy since the early 13th century , with some areas showing the effects of the French - Burgundian ideas brought to Italy by the Cis- tercians , and others holding true to the Romanesque and classical traditions . As a result , there ...
... Italy since the early 13th century , with some areas showing the effects of the French - Burgundian ideas brought to Italy by the Cis- tercians , and others holding true to the Romanesque and classical traditions . As a result , there ...
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... Italian examples , most. 16th century International mannerism with the plateresque and ideas from Italy Spain was still primarily Gothic during the late 15th century , and the introduction of the ideas and forms of the Italian ...
... Italian examples , most. 16th century International mannerism with the plateresque and ideas from Italy Spain was still primarily Gothic during the late 15th century , and the introduction of the ideas and forms of the Italian ...
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