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Title: Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933
Subjects: Architecture, Medieval
Publisher: New York, The Baker and Taylor Company
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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Jl --f III. 146. — Norman Capitals and Bases. (From Ruprieh-Robert)
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III. 147. — Griffes, Capitals and Ornament of the XII century. (From Ruprich-Robert) CAPITALS Exclusively Norman was the idea of doubling the arcade soas to let the archivolts intersect. The earliest example of thisvariation occurs at Graville-Ste.-Honorine, c. 1100 (111. 145).In this instance the archivolts are not carried on colonnettes,but these were soon added. Another very early example ofdouble arcades is to be found at Huppain, and one of the earliestinstances of the fully developed form with colonnettes occurs atAllemagne, near Caen. In Normandy the use of this motivewas always restricted. It never attained the popularity norran the riot of extravagant forms that fell to its lot in Eng-land. In contrast to the varied forms assumed by the chevron andthe engaged arcade, the Carolingian billet moulding persistedthroughout the Norman period without change except that itwas occasionally enriched by doubling or tripling the rows ofteeth (111. 142, 143, 144). Far otherwise was

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