The history and rudiments of architecture; embracing, I. The orders of architecture; II. Architectural styles of various countries; III. The nature and principles of design in architecture; and, IV. An accurate and complete glossary of architectural terms .. (1853)
Bullock, John, ed · New York, Stringer & Townsend · leaf 256
flamboyant tracery, turned upside down, form akind of leaf-tracery. Our countrymen, however, adopted a method which wasless conducive to the aspiring expression, and which con-ducted them to a style less rich and certainly less variedthan any of the other After-Gothics.Erroneously supposing that an… … 250 HISTORY AND RUDIMENTS or shaftlets, thus converting what had been blank arcadesinto mere panels, and then to multiply, diminish, and extendthese panels and endless repetition of vertical lines, overevery part of the interior, and, in florid buildings, even ofthe exterior. But the Perpendicular…
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