An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture (1861)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford ; London : J.H. and J. Parker · leaf 236
the cathedralitself is of ear-lier date, thechapels betweenthe buttresses,with their largewindows of theDecorated style(166), were in-troduced in thefourteenth cen-tury, or the lat-ter part of thethirteenth. Itis worthy ofnotice that theball-flower or-nament, whichis almost as cha-racteristic ofthe… … 2l8 THE FLAMBOYANT STYLE. the twelfth century, and this more especially in Anjouand Poitou. The Decorated style in France appears to have heenchanged into the Flamboyant much more rapidly thanin England it gave way to the Perpendicular. Ex-amples of pure Decorated tracery, either geometrical…
Architecture, Gothic
Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
