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A history of ornament (1916)

Hamlin, Alfred Dwight Foster, 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 396

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SCHOOLS OF GOTHIC ORNAJMEXT Tracery. It was in thisthe German loveof intricate and fan-tastic design andclever workmanshipachieved its highestsuccesses. Such win-dows as those ofCologne, St. Cather-ine at Oppenheim,the Frauenkirche,St. Sebaldus and St.Lorenz at Xurem-berg, the minster atUlm and the… … Altau-pieck or Reredos, Ess-LiXGEx Church. eery is doubled, the outer plane of the window beingadorned with purely decorative mullions and tracery, allquite useless, in addition to that which holds the glass(Ulm, Strassburg). In the fifteenth centmy the designbecomes flamboyant, the vesica…

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