Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1909)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New York, The Baker and Taylor Company · leaf 488
ly complex mouldings,and their profiles were always simple and dignified. As muchcannot be said, however, for the Gothic of Normandy, whichadopted the over-ornate mouldings of the English school. Dripmouldings were introduced into the interior, and the archivoltssupplied with a fairly bewildering… … III. 260. —Albi. Exterior GABLES was the use of open-work gables. The gables of the porches,which had from an early date been placed before the portalsto protect the statuary, were first decorated with pierced ro-settes — as at Amiens (111. 254) — then filled with open-worktracery, analogous to…
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