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A history of ornament (1916)

Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 387

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wing lines, as in anearly example at Wells. Thisushered in what is called theCurvilinear stvle of tracerv, which has alreadv been men-tioned as the probable prototype and parent of theFrench Flamboyant style of tracery. Examples ofFlowing or Curvilinear tracery are in Plate XXI, 10,and in Fig. 372.… … Fig. ;J73. Perpkxdicular Jracery, BrArciiA:MP Chapel, Wauwick. SCHOOLS OF GOTHIC ORNAMENT Perpendicular style (Plate XXI, 11, and Fig. 373).This last was structurally the most correct form of tra-cer}% though decoratively inferior to the two precedingstages. Thus English tracery passed from a…

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