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Title: The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863-
Subjects: Architecture -- History
Publisher: New York, D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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lind arcades and bands ofinterlacing archescalled arcaturcsbas-reliefs of reli-gious subjects, andsymbolical carvingsincrusted the wallspaces, while deepround-headed win-dows and doorsbroke the gray complexity with misty purple inter-ruptions. A large circular window or ccil-dc-btvuf fre-quently held a prominent position, and this afterwarddeveloped into the beautiful rose windows so popularduring the Gothic period. In Italy and many parts of France the porch be-came a tribunal, where the abbot or bishop sat asjudge on certain questions of crime or dispute, espe-cially when plaintiff and defendant were unwilling tocarry the case before a feudal lord, where such mat-ters were settled by force of arms. In these porchesthe columns and their archivolts were often sup-ported on either side by couchant lions, as in St.Zeno, at Verona, and St. Trophyme, at Aries (Fig.1 iS), from which arose the expression of inter leones FlG. 117.—Apse of Notre Dame du Portat Clermont. From Cliapuy. =?>
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Plate XXXV.—Façade of Notre-Dame-la-Grande at Poitiers. *oo THE ROMANESQUE STYLE. - ■ - . .1 * •*■ ■ ■ •1h- i :,\

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