. Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies. this change took placeat different times in different localities, earlier in Lombardyand Germany, later in the He de France and Normandy. Andyet, if we are to select an arbitrary date for the end of the Caro- A pier differs from a column in that it consists of masonry built into the form of a support-ing member, while a column is either a monolith or consists of superimposed drums. Thus apier always contains vertical joints; a column either no joints at all or only horizonfal joints. Col-umns are
. Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies. this change took placeat different times in different localities, earlier in Lombardyand Germany, later in the He de France and Normandy. Andyet, if we are to select an arbitrary date for the end of the Caro- A pier differs from a column in that it consists of masonry built into the form of a support-ing member, while a column is either a monolith or consists of superimposed drums. Thus apier always contains vertical joints; a column either no joints at all or only horizonfal joints. Col-umns are ordinarily circular in section; piers, on the other hand, are more often square, rec-tangular, or of some complicated form. For a jjiven area of section a column is probably strongerthan a pier; but the size of a pier can be increased so that it may be made large enough to sup-port any load. For this reason, in the circular Byzantine churches it had been the customto support the dome on piers, while for the intermediate, hghter supports, columns wereused. 166 I3B ,.jM!jV>j, t»I ir±i. • - ??;^^vi^^ !)!). — Detail of Exterior Clearstory of St. Geiieroux. (Proiii Arch. Je la Com. iles Moii. Hist.) RISE OF LOMBARD ARCHITECTURE lino;ian period, we cannot do better than to take the yearlOUO. If this date be agreed upon as marking the end of the Caro-hngian style, it must be clearly recognized that we include inthat style a considerable number of monuments in Germanyand Lombardy that belong rather with the succeeding in Germany need trouble us little in the present connec-tion. Of those in Lombardy, I shall end this chapter with abrief description. This Lombard style, the earliest of the national movementsin architecture, first came to assume form, in a very hesitatingmanner, as early as the IX century. It adopted as its own cer-tain Carolingian features that we have already studied. Thepilaster strip and the arched corbel-table, used as exterior orna-ment
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