buttress-piers

Updated: May 12, 2025

At the entrance came the giant basins for holy water with their boy-angels as chubby as Cupids; then the nave, vaulted and decorated with sunken coffers; then the four cyclopean buttress-piers upholding the dome, and then again the transepts and apsis, each as large as one of our churches.

Émile Zola - The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 2

And it was over now, the dome had strewn the ground with fragments, and all that remained standing, in addition to a portion of the apse, where five columns of the central nave, still upholding a shred of entablature, and four cyclopean buttress-piers on which the dome had rested piers which still arose, isolated and superb, looking indestructible among all the surrounding downfall.

Émile Zola - The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 5

And it was over now, the dome had strewn the ground with fragments, and all that remained standing, in addition to a portion of the apse, where five columns of the central nave, still upholding a shred of entablature, and four cyclopean buttress-piers on which the dome had rested piers which still arose, isolated and superb, looking indestructible among all the surrounding downfall.

Émile Zola - The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete

And it was over now, the dome had strewn the ground with fragments, and all that remained standing, in addition to a portion of the apse, where five columns of the central nave, still upholding a shred of entablature, and four cyclopean buttress-piers on which the dome had rested piers which still arose, isolated and superb, looking indestructible among all the surrounding downfall.

Émile Zola - The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete: Lourdes, Rome and Paris

At the entrance came the giant basins for holy water with their boy-angels as chubby as Cupids; then the nave, vaulted and decorated with sunken coffers; then the four cyclopean buttress-piers upholding the dome, and then again the transepts and apsis, each as large as one of our churches.

Émile Zola - The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete

At the entrance came the giant basins for holy water with their boy-angels as chubby as Cupids; then the nave, vaulted and decorated with sunken coffers; then the four cyclopean buttress-piers upholding the dome, and then again the transepts and apsis, each as large as one of our churches.

Émile Zola - The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete: Lourdes, Rome and Paris