Medieval Architecture; Its Origins And Development, With Lists of Monuments And Bibliographies 2
Medieval Architecture; Its Origins And Development, With Lists of Monuments And Bibliographies 2
Arthur Kingsley Porter
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Plan. (From Dehio) Although lacking the exuberant richness of Amiens or Reims, the west front of Pari? still unites all the elements that character- ize the fa9ades of the XIII century. The division into three parts by buttresses rising clear, sharp, incisive from the ground to the topmost summit of the towers, gives strongly marked verti- cal lines which add infinite strength and vigor to the composition; 282 III. 246. — St. Denis. Interior )^ I 4 ►w^ ;t id I:=f i . i ?'^.. ^ .r J 111. 247. — ...Section of I^e Mans. (From Doliio) PARADES and in a three-aisled church (which Paris, however, is not) such a division expresses externally the three aisles of the interior. Twin towers flank the gable; below the nave vaults opens the great rose window. The horizontal divisions are formed by two galleries, — in reality nothing more than magnified III. 248. — Plan of Laon. (From Defaio) string-courses — one marking the height of the nave, the other the height of the side aisles. The lower gallery, known as the gallery of the kings, from the royal statues which adorn the niches, projects outward considerably from the upper part of the fa9ade; in fact, the whole structure is given a pyramidal or sloping form, partly to gain greater stability, partly to thicken the lower part of the wall in which the great portals are pierced.
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