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A history of ornament (1916)

Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 368

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Fig. 35i.—Two Figures fromPortal, Amiens Cathedral Fig. 353.—Ivory Triptych, in Amiens LibraryFrench, XVth Century SCHOOLS OF GOTHIC ORNAMENT … extremely simple. The Cathedral of Chartres shows thefinest examples of plate tracery in its western rosewindow (Fig. 354) and the tops of the clearstory win-dows of the nave. In the windows of St. Denis, NotreDame at Paris, Reimsand the nave ofAmiens we have thesimpler types of bar-tracery…

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