The story of art throughout the ages; an illustrated record (1904)
Reinach, Salomon, 1858-1932, Simmonds, Florence · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 122
continuity between them andthe buildings of the Renaissance,whereas Gothic art intervenes as a brilliant epi.sode, the apogee of whichwas but little removed from its decline.Three periods have been discernedin Gothic architecture, determined bythe shape and decoration of the win-dows; to these the… … FIG 172.—HOTEL DE CLUNY, PARIS. distinguished as Thirteenth Century,or Early English; Fourteenth Century,or Decorated, and Fifteenth Century,or Perpendicular (Fig. 170). But allthese terms are somewhat loosely ap-plied. It will be enough to say herethat the principle of Gothic archi-tecture led it…
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