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A text-book of the history of architecture (1904)

Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, and co. · leaf 224

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ngs ofsaints, apostles, martyrs,and angels. Virtues andvices, allegories of re-ward and punishment,and an extraordinaryworld of monstrous andgrotesque beasts, devils,and goblins filled thecapitals and door-arches,peeped over tower - par-apets, or leered andgrinned from gargoyles and corbels.… … FIG. 113. — FLAMBOYANT DETAIL FROM PULPITIN STRASBURG CATHEDRAL. 192 HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE. the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries (cathedrals ofYork, Rouen, Cologne ; Henry VII.s Chapel, Westminster).And finally in the carving of capitals and the ornamentationof mouldings the artists of the…

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