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Winchester Cathedral: ceiling vaults
stucco
Amiens Cathedral
Vaulting with frescoes, oil on canvas by Juan Gersón, 1562; in the Franciscan church at Tecamachalco, Puebla, Mexico.
four common types of vault
The area of a bay indicated in a reconstruction of a Gothic vault, from Le Premier Tome de l'architecture de Philibert de L'Orme (1567), by Philibert Delorme
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