Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 312
,originallv used onlv at the endsof gabled roofs, came to be usedas purely decorative features,adorned with surface or open-work tracerv, over doors and win-dows where no such roofs existed(Fig. 295) ; in England the vault-ribs, serving in earlier buildingsas a framework upon which tobuild the… … 296. ClusteredGothic Pier. Piers, Shafts and Columns. Except in some of the earlier French and later Bel-gian and Dutch churches, all the piers were clustered, 1 See pages 134, 135, and 137 note for other examples of this law of devel-opment, and comments upon it. 285 A HISTORY OF ORNAMENT slender…
Decoration and ornament -- History
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