The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 366
netmaker more than the architect. Not but what the constructive features are allcorrect beneath their mask of elaboration, but theeffort to lighten the general effect by over-refinement FLAM BO YAXT EXCESSES. 343 of detail has resulted in an awkward heaviness ofthe masses. In this church we have a… … Fig. 140.—Chapel of Henry VII at Westminister. canopied niches, diapered walls, traceried apertures,pinnacles, and embroidered buttresses; of sky linesfretted with finials, of gables crested with crockets,of strange animals chasing one another throughtangled leafage, and of mouldings enriched with…
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