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 596
nt not only the great portalsand the facades 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 Caudebec-en-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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