Identifier: introductiontost00park_0 (find matches)
Title: An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884
Subjects: Architecture, Gothic
Publisher: Oxford: J. Parker and Co.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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THE FLAMBOYANT STYLE. 261 windows IS frequently formed in such a manner as tointroduce a large fleur-de-lis conspicuouslj^ in the headof the window; in other instances the outline of a heartis similarly introduced, and sometimes the heraldic de-vice of the family who built the church is formed inthe tracery.
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180. S. Saveur, Dinan, c. 1500.A French Flamboyant window. The windows are of course the chief marks of thestyle, and are readily distinguished by the waving, 262 THE FLAMBOYANT STYLE, flame-like character of the tracery (180). The clere-story windows of this style are generally large andimportant; and the back of the triforium being com-monly glazed also, makes that appear a continuationof the clerestory windows. The Doorways of this style are generally very rich ;the actual doors have usually flat heads, with an en-riched arch, or canopy, or shallow porch over them;and the space which in the earlier styles forms thetympanum, and is filled with sculpture, is usuallyoccupied by a window in Flamboyant work, as atHarfleur, ISormandy (179). Mr. Eickman ob-serves, in describingthis style, that Itsessence seems to beelaborate and minuteornament, and thiscontinues until theforms and combina-tions are sadly de-based, and a strangemixture of Italianismjumbled with it. The arches of thisstyle

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