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Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1912)

Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New Haven, Yale University Press · leaf 576

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arch is one whose archivolt is a line of douhle curvature. Flowing tracery is formed of mullions which assume flame-like lines of double curva-ture, instead of the geometric forms of earlier times. 3 The above passage was written at the time of the very commencement of the controversythat has since… … III. 269. — Koueii. Fa9iide ENGLISH INFLUENCE characteristic of the architecture of England from the firstquarter of the XIV century. Similarly non-geometrical tracery,unknown in France before c. 1375, was so frequent in Englandthat it has given the name Flowing to one of the phases ofthe decorated…

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