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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 598

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nt not only the great portalsand the fa9ades of the nave and transepts but the entire exte-rior of the building. Adorned with a mass of the most intricatecarvings and ornament, the ogee arches wandered across abackground equally intricate and also constructed of openwork, interpenetrating,… … III. 275. — Spire of (audebec-eu-Caux THE OGEE ARCH to become ever more intricate and more complicated. At last,however, the influence of Renaissance taste led to a greatersimplicity of design, but at the same time to a fondness for boldflorid curves. The delicate lines of the XV century,…

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