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Title: Aesthetic manual, to accompany the aesthetic series of drawing books and to be used independently
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Thompson, L. S
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Publisher: Boston, D.C. Heath & Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ith the structural features, and always grows naturally from them. It fulfillsevery one of the conditions which we desire to find in a perfect style of art. But itremained perfect only so long as the style remained conventional. As the style becameless idealized and more direct in imitation, its peculiar beauties disappeared, and itceased to be an ornamentation of structural features, but became ornament applied. As regards the use of plants, exotics, if not symbolical, tropical plants, and classicalornaments are excluded. Fruits, flowers, and leaves of northern countries or of theimmediate region are very common. The examples of Gothic art that still remain to us are cathedrals, churches, encaustictiles, finials, illuminated MSS., stained glass, etc. Gothic Elements.The principal Gothic elements are window-tracery, trefoils, quatrefoils, cinquefoils,fleur-de-lis, crocket leaf, Tudor flower, ball-flower, zizgag, and gargoyles. Illustrationsof these elements are shown on the next page.
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Fie. I represents the Dog-toothed Molding; Fig. 2, the Ball-flower; Fig. 3, Zigzag Molding; Fig. 4.a FiniS; Fig. ?, Crocket Leaf; Fig. 6, arrangement of Crockets; Fig. 7, Square Crocket; tig. »,Fleur-de-lis; Fig. 9, Cusp; Fig. 10, Tudor Flower; Fig. 11, Gargoyle; Fig. 12, Window-tracery. HISTORICAL ORNAMENT. 135 Gothic Architecture. The cold and rainy climate of northern France and England as compared withsouthern Europe, no doubt, had something to do in developing the steep roof, the solidbuttresses, and the narrow doors and windows; the steep roof being well adapted tothrow off quickly the large quantities of snow and rain to which they were exposed,and the narrow openings to shut them out. The pointed arch is not, as many sup-pose, a peculiarity of the Gothic, although it is characteristic of it during a considerableperiod. English ecclesiastical architecture embraces a period of about five hundred years,from 1066 A.D., the death of Edward the Confessor, to 1558 a.d., the death of

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