The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 350
that buttress. THE STYLES. All Gothic architecture may be divided into threeprincipal periods, a useful classification by which todetermine the approximate date of its buildings at aglance. In France these periods are catalogued as fol-lows: First, Early Frencli or Lancet period, coveringthe latter… … Fig. 130.—Flying buttresses at AmiensCathedral. 328 THE GOTHIC STYLE. commencing with the dawn of the fifteenth century,reached into the early part of the sixteenth {circa1400-1515). Like the Romanesque, the Gothic had herschools—in Picardy, Guienne, Anjou, Champagne,and, above all, in Normandy…
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