Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 320
of win-dows under a discharging arch through successive stages in which the separatingpier became a column ora slender chamfered ormolded pier of cut stone,while the spandrel abovewas perforated with a cir-cle; then treated like athick plate of stone withdecoratively cusped orfoiled openings cut… … A HISTORY OF ORNAMENT the space between their pointed-arched heads and themain window-arch filled with circles or geometric pat-terns of stone work, the interest of the design being nowtransferred from the shapes of the openings to the shapesof the stone work (bar tracery. Fig. 305 h). Towardsthe…
Decoration and ornament -- History
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