The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 395
Fig. 156.—House of Jacques Cceur at Bourges. leaded glass, lent the facades that singular charm pe-culiar to the Middle Ages. Often the exterior woodwork was chamfered, andchiselled into graceful bas-relief; but this treatmentwas mostly confined to the fifteenth century, orperiod just preceding the… … HOUSE OF JACQUES CCEUR, ETC. 373 In England we find much the same style of dwell-ing, and the half-timbered houses of Shrewsbury andChester resemble those of Lisieux (Plate LI I), whilein Germany this form of building became almost acraze. The houses of rich burgesses hold an importantposition in…
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