Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy (1915)
Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924 · Cambridge [Eng.] University Press · leaf 363
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… … SL&TLCU Fig. 195. those at Laon and Chartres or Westminster and Lincoln.In pure Italian Gothic, setting aside buildings whereTrans-Alpine influence enters, the tracery does not followthe logical construction of the northern window. Thetracery bar does not always ramify and coalesce ; thecusping…
Architecture, Gothic
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