Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy (1915)
Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924 · Cambridge [Eng.] University Press · leaf 245
Fig. 180. CH. xxii] FRENCH FLAMBOYANT 145 their statuary these portals, with their pierced and traceried pediments, open parapet-work and pinnacles, have an extraordinary magnificence (Plate CXXIVb). There are somewhat similar porches, not less splendid, at Vendome and Alen9on. There is a tendency… … Fig. 181. genuity and clever tricks, often at the expense of moreserious design, and Flamboyant architecture affordsflagrant examples of it. Now was the time for elaborateproblems of interpenetrating mouldings, conceived tomeet and pass through one another, and emerge at theproper point, which was…
Architecture, Gothic
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