Horton, Caroline W · New York, Hurd and Houghton; Cambridge, The Riverside press · leaf 189
pros-perous ; the arts revived ; many new churches wereerected, and many old ones repaired and re-modeled. Florid Gothic. — But the architects were not con-tent to follow the beautiful models of a former gen-eration. The desire fornovelty and change mustbe satisfied, even at thesacrifice of beauty.… … Gothic Architecture. 173 arches were overburdened with ornament. Thesimple geometric forms were exchanged for flame-hke curves, especially in the window cusps; thearches, also, lost their simple lines, curving out-wardly in some parts, while depressed in others, andso slender as to forbid the idea…
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