How to know architecture : the human elements in the evolution of styles (1914)
Wallis, Frank Edwin, 1862-1929 · New York : Harper and Brothers · leaf 183
h crowns the deeply arched entrances is per-forated and treated with geometrical interlacing forms.The strongly cut moldings of the arches are filled withextravagant translations of the flower forms used in theearlier type. It is not idealism beyond control but ratherone of extravagant conceit and… … fig. 64—residence of w. k. vanderbilt, new york (sixteenth- century gothic) FLAMBOYANT GOTHIC life corresponding, in a degree, to the strange fearlessnessand independence of the French nobility of the fifteenthcentury. We can see here plainly the equivalent of achateau-building period, for we are…
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