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Gothic style



Gothic vaulting is nothing but an application of the principle of balance to the roof. The ribs of the vault, balanced the one against the other, and not the material between, are the real roof. What the Gothic builders did was to create a science of vaulting out of the idea of balance which the Romanesque masons had tested.

- Ernest H. Short, History of Religious Architecture   (2002)


















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