Smith, T. Roger (Thomas Roger), 1830-1903 · New York : Scribner and Welford · leaf 150
more perplexing and confusing than pleasing : the carvingexaggerates the natural markings of the foliage represented,and, being thin, and very boldly undercut, resembles leavesbeaten out in metal, rather than foliage happily and easilyimitated in stone, which is what good architectural… … Fig. 49.—St. Sebalds Chuech at Nueembeeg. ■The Beides Dooeway. (1303—1377.) no GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE. Construction and Design. The marked peculiarities of construction by whicli theGerman Gothic buildings are most distinguished, are theprevalent high-pitched roofs, the vaulting with aisle-vaults…
Architecture, Gothic · Architecture, Renaissance
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