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SPANISH AECHITECTUEE.
Paet II.
the round-arched style, and in France would certainly be quoted as
belonging to that date, or
earlier ; but when we tui'n
to the interior (Woodcut No.
936), we find that the whole
substructure is of pointed
architecture. True it is the
old simple Early Spanish
style, yet still.such as rather
to upset our ideas of archi-
tectural chronology in this
respect. The internal dia-
meter of the dome is only
28 ft. ; yet it is a most
efîective feature both inter-
nally and externally, and
gives great dignity to what
otherwise would be a very
plain building.
Without going beyond
the limits of the style, the
dome at Tarragona (Wood-
cut No. 938) illustrates the
form usually taken by Gothic
domes when resting on square bases. There is a litÜe awkwardness in
the form of the pendentives, which do not fit the main arches below
them, though at that age the Spaniards might have learned from the
Saracens how to manage this feature. At
Salamanca the mode in which the square
base was workecl up into a circle was by
pendentives of Byzantine form, the courses
of masonry simply projecting beyond one
another till the transition was efîected,
but without that accentuation which was
thought so essential in Got-hic art. Above
the pendentives, however, at Tarragona, the
form of the dome is perfect. The windows
are alternately of three and four lights, and
937' ’ :t' Gaühàba?d 0.) ia’sciie r0m the whole is fitted together with exquisite
100 ft. to 1 in. -, i j.
propnety and taste.
Although borrowing their style in the first instance immediately
from the French, the Spaniards developed it with such a variety of
plans and details, as might have made it a style of their own but for
the fresh importation of French designs in the beginning of the 13th
century. Before these came in, however, they had very frequently in
936. Section of Cimborio at Salamanca.
(From ‘ Mon. Arch. d’Espana.’) No scale.
SPANISH AECHITECTUEE.
Paet II.
the round-arched style, and in France would certainly be quoted as
belonging to that date, or
earlier ; but when we tui'n
to the interior (Woodcut No.
936), we find that the whole
substructure is of pointed
architecture. True it is the
old simple Early Spanish
style, yet still.such as rather
to upset our ideas of archi-
tectural chronology in this
respect. The internal dia-
meter of the dome is only
28 ft. ; yet it is a most
efîective feature both inter-
nally and externally, and
gives great dignity to what
otherwise would be a very
plain building.
Without going beyond
the limits of the style, the
dome at Tarragona (Wood-
cut No. 938) illustrates the
form usually taken by Gothic
domes when resting on square bases. There is a litÜe awkwardness in
the form of the pendentives, which do not fit the main arches below
them, though at that age the Spaniards might have learned from the
Saracens how to manage this feature. At
Salamanca the mode in which the square
base was workecl up into a circle was by
pendentives of Byzantine form, the courses
of masonry simply projecting beyond one
another till the transition was efîected,
but without that accentuation which was
thought so essential in Got-hic art. Above
the pendentives, however, at Tarragona, the
form of the dome is perfect. The windows
are alternately of three and four lights, and
937' ’ :t' Gaühàba?d 0.) ia’sciie r0m the whole is fitted together with exquisite
100 ft. to 1 in. -, i j.
propnety and taste.
Although borrowing their style in the first instance immediately
from the French, the Spaniards developed it with such a variety of
plans and details, as might have made it a style of their own but for
the fresh importation of French designs in the beginning of the 13th
century. Before these came in, however, they had very frequently in
936. Section of Cimborio at Salamanca.
(From ‘ Mon. Arch. d’Espana.’) No scale.