Lectures on the rise and development of medieval architecture; vol. 2Scott, George Gilbert, Sir
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Lectures on the rise and development of medieval architecture; vol. 2
Scott, George Gilbert, Sir
Architecture, Gothic; Architecture, Medieval
Romanesque, i. 13;
in France and Germany, 15, 33;
ii. 7;
cathedrals of Germany, i. 43;
refined variety of, 44;
leading characteristics, 48;
religious to the utmost extreme, 49;
ornamentation, 70, 81;
Pointed Gothic but an advanced stage of, 50;
vaulted churches, 51;
refinement of, 70;
Corinthianesque style of foliage, 77;
crypt at St. Denis, 80;
transepts at Tournay, 90;
English, 104, 337;
transition from, 123;
windows, 159, 161;
builders, 221;
cathedral bay, 243;
of Southern Europe, 254, 337;
in Normandy, 327;
manner of building, ii. 6;
primitive, 11;
of the North of France, 62, 63, 64;
style, 73, 75;
elements of, 75;
perfect varieties, 82;
abacus, 94;
arch-mouldings, 142;
early, 306;
of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, 308.
Romano-British reminiscences, ii. 60.
Romans, vaulting used by the, i. 52, 57;
their pointed arch, 66;
ii. 304;
architecture of the, i. 336;
ii. 303, 304;
want of refinement in the details of, 304;
greatly extended the capabilities of classic architecture, _ibid._;
late buildings of the, in Syria, 305.
Rome, her arts and literature, i. 5;
early architecture of, 45;
early windows of, 250;
empire of, ii. 4, 297;
architecture of, 6;
St. Peter’s, 115, 253, 280-289;
St. Paul without the Walls, and St. John Lateran, 146;
Pantheon, i. 271;
ii. 231-234, 237, 244, 246, 253, 260, 262, 282, 283;
Temple of Minerva Medica, 234-236, 239, 246, 249, 259;
Temple of Vesta, 237;
Tomb of St. Constantia, 237, 238.
Romsey Minster, ii. 108.
Roof-plate, stone, i. 258.
Roofs, i. 19, 254, 274, 327;
timber of early basilicas, 51;
high pitch, 255;
timber, ii. 136.
Rosette, the, i. 248.
Rose-windows, ii. 218.
Rouen, i. 141;
doorways, western façade, 87.
Round arch, outward pressure of, i. 233.
Round-arched Gothic, i. 70;
ii. 5, 8, 134, 178;
vaulting, 153-168, 191;
vaulting of oblong bays, 163;
vaulting with raised ridges, 171.
Rufus, King, ii. 107, 113, 117, 127.
Ruins, i. 31;
their decay, 32.
Runic ornamentation, i. 41.
Ruskin, Mr., i. 349;
on classic capitals, ii. 302.
Rye House, i. 314.
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Sainte Chapelle, i. 183, 324;
capitals “à crochet,” 103;
vaulting of the crypt, ii. 204, 222.
Salisbury Cathedral, i. 18, 140;
ii. 311;
north porch, i. 167;
space between rere-arch and glass plane groined in some windows at, 283;
rere-arch windows, 286;
chapter-house, 288, 343;
ii. 184, 210;
cloisters, i. 343;
Lady Chapel, ii. 204, 222.
Salzenberg’s “Old Christian Architecture at Constantinople,” ii. 258.
Sangallo, drawings of, preserved in the Barberini library, ii. 236, 280.
Saracenic, traces of, in pointed architecture, i. 8, 9, 13, 133;
ornament used by Romanesque builders, 134.
Saracens, incursions, i. 40;
pointed arch of the, 67, 133;
Corinthian capital foreshadowed in works of the, 133.
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