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Character of renaissance architecture (1905)

Moore, Charles Herbert, 1840-1930 · New York, London, The Macmillan Company · leaf 228

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the composition. All of theseparts have the characteristic Flamboyant forms and ornamentaldetails. The openings are splayed, and their profilings have thesharp Flamboyant arrises. The buttresses have the multiplicityof angular members set obliquely, with the simulated interpene-trations, and the… … Fig. 113.—Clialeauilun. altered details. In place of the buttresses we have a remark-able combination of columns, pilasters, and other nea-classicornaments put together so as to produce a pseudo-Flamboyant 186 ARCHITECTURE OF THE RENAISSANCE chap. Gothic effect. The portals and windows are flanked…

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