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Title: Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933
Subjects: Architecture, Medieval
Publisher: New York, The Baker and Taylor Company
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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found reason to believe, was derived fromthe arched form in Lombardy, much preceded it in Normandy.This fact seems to lend color to the theory which sees betweenthe two forms of the corbel-table no connection, and derives theflat type directly from the modillion of the classic Corinthianorder. It might, however, easily be that the Normans borrowedthe latter form first, as being of simpler execution. Also of Lombard derivation are the grotesques that adornthe flat corbel-tables, the voussoirs, and occasionally the capitals;and Lombard are the beaks of birds and the strange heads (111.141, 147), rows of which surround the rich doorways of the XIIcentury. Many of these representations, especially on thecorbel-tables, are frankly obscene,1 and yet such carvings, forall their coarseness, often possess an undeniable charm of humor 1 Examples may be found at Notre-Dame-sur-1 Eau of Domfront, Cintheaux, Beaumais.Bieville, Montgaroult, Bretteville-sur-Odon, St.-Pierre-du-Mont, Pierrepont. 278
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oO s I BUTTRESSES and naivete. Thoroughly Lombard, too, are the crude attemptsat statuary sometimes found in the tympana of XII century por-tals (111. 143). It is only necessary to compare these childishefforts with the contemporary work in the He de France to realizethat the Norman school was exclusively under the influence ofLombardy in its figure sculpture. The bases of Norman piers betray Lombard influence in theuse of griffes (111. 147), — a device as characteristically Italianas the arched corbel-table. The profiles of these bases are oftwo general types, as may be seen from the reproductions (111.146, 147): the first is generally conical in form, each mouldingin turn receding a little from the one below it; the second isAttic in character. Neither of these types of base was appreci-ably modified, except in technique, until the arrival of influencefrom the He de France. Distinctly Lombard was the substitution of shafts for but-tresses in certain apses of Normandy. Examples of

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