Reber, Franz, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920, tr · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 596
certain of the brick buildings ofSouth Germany, as, for example, theChurch of St. Martin at Landshut, inwhich the vaults attain a height ofthirty metres, while the piers are onlyabout one metre in diameter, being thus of extreme attenuation. The Gothic architecture of France had long been declining… … Fig- 356.—View of the Church of theVirgin at Prenzlau, from the east. 560 THE EXTENSION OF GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE. nal plans led to whimsical artifices, which may be compared tothe barroque designs of the late Renaissance. The ornamentation,especially the tracery, was no longer limited to geometrical…
Art, Medieval
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