Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, and co. · leaf 273
e Gothic period a number of strikingly beau-tiful church steeples, in which openwork tracery was sub-stituted for the solid stone pyramids of earlier examples.The most remarkable of these spires are those of Freiburg(1300), Strasburg, and Cologne cathedrals, of the church atEsslingen, St. Martins… … FIG. 140.—SECTION OF ST. ELIZABETH, MAR-BLRG. GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE IN GERMANY. 24I dral at Vienna (1433) the transition is too gradual, so thatthe spire seems to start from the ground and lacks thevigor and accent of a simpler square lower portion. Theover-elaborate spire of Strasburg (1429, by…
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