40
William C. Brumfield
12. Cathedral ofthe Presentation of the Yirgin, Presentation Monastery. Solvychegodsk.
1688- ca. 1693
12. Solwyczegodsk, sobór monasteru Wwiedeńskiego,
1688 - ok. 1693
ofthe Trinity Cathedral into three exterior bays surmounted by zakamary do not correspond
to the interior segmentation. In earlier medieval architecture, this correspondence would
have been obligatory; but by the second half of the 17th century, developments in vaulting
and masonry techniques permitted a divergence between exterior and interior segmentation
that is particularly noticeable in churches of the Yaroslavl, Kostroma, and Vologda regions.
The use of the two-piered plan, when implemented with careful calculation of the stress
William C. Brumfield
12. Cathedral ofthe Presentation of the Yirgin, Presentation Monastery. Solvychegodsk.
1688- ca. 1693
12. Solwyczegodsk, sobór monasteru Wwiedeńskiego,
1688 - ok. 1693
ofthe Trinity Cathedral into three exterior bays surmounted by zakamary do not correspond
to the interior segmentation. In earlier medieval architecture, this correspondence would
have been obligatory; but by the second half of the 17th century, developments in vaulting
and masonry techniques permitted a divergence between exterior and interior segmentation
that is particularly noticeable in churches of the Yaroslavl, Kostroma, and Vologda regions.
The use of the two-piered plan, when implemented with careful calculation of the stress