Architecture; an introduction to the history and theory of the art of building (1912)
Lethaby, W. R. (William Richard), 1857-1931 · London: Williams and Norgate · leaf 195
RMAN SCHOOLS 191 foiled arch and the foiled circle are Eastern features. A remarkable example of the tre- foil-arch is found in the thirteenth-century porches of Bourges Cathedral ; here the bottom lobes are complete, as in Moorish arches. Still farther north, at Tournay, I have seen two doorways… … centuries. The carved wooden doors of Le Puy are famous because of it, and the ornament appears in English twelfth- century decorations of MSS. A sharp, crisp type of carving which spread over the West about the middle of the twelfth century seems to have been imitated from Saracenic ivories. The…
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