Prior, Edward S. (Edward Schröder), 1852-1932 · London : G. Bell and Sons · leaf 298
t;L\. IAINIIM, AL I.A>1 I.NIJ. to Its restramts he made a value of his obedience. The permitted fields of his franchise were all the freer for the reserve of his confinement. When, in the fourteenth century, the license of decorative play broke up the structural scheme, at the same moment chains… … 278 GOTHIC ART and forthwith the broad spandrel of the arch-head was more and moreto bow to the architectural tyranny of tracery-design. Certain phases of this long movement by which gradually structureshifted into ornament go back into the thirteenth century, for even atits beginning the open-work…
Architecture · Architecture, Gothic
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