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 149
EARLY CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS 145 origin of Gothic cusping. The lobed arch member is found at Qalb-Louzeh in Syria. It appears on the great front arch of the Persian palace at Ctesiphon. At the palace of Ukheithar the lobed arch becomes quite a Gothic form, as only a few large lobes were apphed to a… … then it was taken up by the Romanesque builders of South France, and became the parent form of the great family of cusped Gothic arches. There is a difference between what I call the lobed arch and the cusped arch : in the former the series of scallops are complete, in the latter there is only a…
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