Ecclesiastical art in Germany during the middle ages (1873)
Lübke, Wilhelm, 1826-1893, Wheatley, L. A. (Leonard Abercrombie), 1835-1895 · Edinburgh, T. C. Jack; [etc., etc.] · leaf 79
The Transition Period. 53 arcades of the interior become pointed arches , but always in that primitive, dwarfed , heavy form of arch. It is thus, in the collegiate church of St George at Limburg (Fig. 43), where the arcades, galleries, and vaults show the … Fig. 43. — St George at Limburg. nearer to one another than the others. It being required to form their arch as high as the other round arches, this could only be accomplished by raising its apex to the required height, and a pointed arch was the simple result. By a similar necessity the pointed…
Church architecture · Church furniture
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