Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy (1915)
Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924 · Cambridge [Eng.] University Press · leaf 362
s under an including arch, then to plate-tracery, and finally to the perfection of bar-tracery. Butthis was not its history in Italy. Tracery did not growup there, but was taken ready-made from the northernstyles and adopted as a beautiful architectural feature.It does not play so important a part… … LUCCA CATHEDRAL—The Tiiforium CH. XXV] CENTRAL ITALY 205 great clerestories of Amiens or Beauvais and the vast Italianeast windows of York or Gloucester would have been traceryintolerable south of the Alps. The Italian windows,even in the largest churches, are often only of two-lights,and the rose…
Architecture, Gothic
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