How to know architecture : the human elements in the evolution of styles (1914)
Wallis, Frank Edwin, 1862-1929 · New York : Harper and Brothers · leaf 181
progress as are the parent cathe-drals, and so you will see it if you remember that we areconcerned with the development of stvle and not withquestions of morals. Our most vivid picture of the social life of this time, then,is of the foppish and extravagant nobles basking in thesmiles of beautiful… … FIG. 63—ST. thomass church, new york From an etching by C. F. W. Mielatz FLAMBOYANT GOTHIC lavish, more luxurious and flowery thing, albeit still abeautiful one, for there was not wanting a nobility evenin this decaying chivalry. The arch of the fifteenth century is no longer the simple,upward,…
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