Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1909)
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otanists have identified with much exactness the variousspecies of Gothic flora, which are invariably taken from plants common in the neighborhood.According to M. Lambin the following are the more usuallj imitated plants. In the XII cen-tury, arum, nenuphar, iris, plaintain, fougere, vigne… … III. 256. — South Iransepl-end of Chartres FLORAL ORNAMENT conventionalized as in the well-known string-course of Amiens(111. 219), but by the middle of the XIII century Gothic florahad bioken from control, and had commenced to run riot inpurely naturalistic forms, which, however lovely in…
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