History of mediæval art . ui t—f f r p* Fig. 300.—System of the Cathe-dral of Fig. 301.—System of Notre-Dame of Paris. towards the nave as a gallery, two or three small arches supportedupon columns and united by one relieving arch appearing in eachcompartment. While either a gallery or a triforium was introducedinto the Romanic structures, the early Gothic buildings were com-monly provided with both: the triforium ornamenting that part ofthe wall which corresponded to the lean-to roof, and providing anarrow passage in the thickness of the wall. The wall arches were 492 GOTHIC ARCHITECT
History of mediæval art . ui t—f f r p* Fig. 300.—System of the Cathe-dral of Fig. 301.—System of Notre-Dame of Paris. towards the nave as a gallery, two or three small arches supportedupon columns and united by one relieving arch appearing in eachcompartment. While either a gallery or a triforium was introducedinto the Romanic structures, the early Gothic buildings were com-monly provided with both: the triforium ornamenting that part ofthe wall which corresponded to the lean-to roof, and providing anarrow passage in the thickness of the wall. The wall arches were 492 GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE. opened by windows without mullions; these, like the triforiums!were at first round-arched, a systematic employment of pointedforms appearing first in Notre-Dame at Paris. In this cathedralround windows formerly took the place of the triforium ; these wereclosed and masked in later times, as the horizontal membermentwas felt to be too much emphasized and the stories too similar reasons the introduction of galleries became less com-mon, the side aisles thus gainin
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