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rear, you reach a
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half-circular space called the apse. You might find separate chapels opening off (or "radiating from") the walkway or
ambulatory that follows ... outside perimeter of the apse.
The chevet at the Abbey of Saint-Denis (1144) is a recursive structure. Its half-circular perimeter is defined not by a
simple curved line ... chevets have approximately this shape--in which each chapel "becomes a paraphrase of the apse itself,* as
John Summerson puts it. But Saint-Denis realizes the idea in its purest
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