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Rh Bk. VII. Ch. II. EAELY SPANISH GOTHIC. 257 Salamanca the mode in which the square base was worked up into a circle was by j^endentives of Byzantine form, the courses of masonry 699. Exterior of Lantern, Salamanca Old Cathedral. (From Street.) simply projecting beyond one another till the transition was effected, but without that accentuation which was thought so essential in Gothic art. Above the pendentives, however, at Tarragona, the form VOL. II. — 17