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Title: Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924
Subjects: Architecture, Gothic
Publisher: Cambridge, University Press

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ofthe Flamboyant or Perpendicular period. The traceriesare all of severe and vigorous geometrical forms andI do not remember an ogee curve. The mouldings aredelicate and pure in detail, though somewhat slenderand wiry as the proportions of the mullions and tracerybar require, but still sufficient and effective, and thedesign has escaped that monotony and tameness whichcharacterizes so much of the 14th century work inFrance1. The glass Nearly all the windows are filled with painted glass of the date of the church, and on a consistent scheme,forming an harmonious system of decoration. A bandof figure work bounded by straight lines forms a zoneof splendid colour round the building on a ground ofrich grisaille which sparkles like a tissue of silver. Gothic in In the south and west of France Gothic architecture France1 ultimately made its way, but it never quite effaced the 1 The church is fully described and illustrated by Viollet-le-Duc in hisarticle on Construction. Diet. Rais. vol. iv.
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CH. IX) PROVINCIAL STYLES 161 traditional Romanesque of those parts, which yieldedslowly and reluctantly to the new-comer. The Gothiccathedrals of Clermont and Limoges seem out of place,and have an air of intrusion among the far more interestingbuildings of the Romanesque period of which that partof France is full. In Poitou and Anjou pointed archi- The Pian-tecture took a peculiar form very unlike that of the royal style6domain, and retained many features of the precedingRomanesque style. The cathedral at Angers, though Angersit has regular rib and panel vaulting is not very far AKp^ CAJH

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