. Architecture for general students. one. The Gothic style especially manifests itself as theproduct of a northern clime in the inclination ofits roof. Great accumulations of snow and icewhich, gradually melting, would trickle down andwear away the delicate carving, are impossible ; buteven if this were not to be considered, the steeproof would seem to be the only one in harmonywith the rest of the edifice. Pointed arcades,pointed windows, pointed gables, and pointedsteeples demand a pointed roof; the rule stated inthe first chapter is complied with, and the require-ments of convenience and go
. Architecture for general students. one. The Gothic style especially manifests itself as theproduct of a northern clime in the inclination ofits roof. Great accumulations of snow and icewhich, gradually melting, would trickle down andwear away the delicate carving, are impossible ; buteven if this were not to be considered, the steeproof would seem to be the only one in harmonywith the rest of the edifice. Pointed arcades,pointed windows, pointed gables, and pointedsteeples demand a pointed roof; the rule stated inthe first chapter is complied with, and the require-ments of convenience and good taste found to be inunison. The gable of the fa9ade is often, like thewindow-gable, covered with tracery, so rich andvaried in design that one may say, as Dr. Whewellsays of Strasbourg, It looks as if placed behind arich open screen or in a case of woven stone. In Gothic Architecture. 169 the French Gothic, however, a gallery of opentracery work runs along the fa9ade, including thetowers and buttresses, and continued on the outer. Southern Transept of Notre Dame. See p. 170. walls of the towers. This gallery is usually filledwith statues, and completely hides the pinnacledgable. 170 * Architecture. In the later Gothic, the transepts terminated inportals ornamented like those of the fagade ; andthese were often crowned with pinnacles and crock-eted o-ables, while rich wheel-windows filled thespace above. In the southern transept of NotreDame at Paris, we find two of these windows placedone above another — the lower one measuring thirty-six feet in diameter. Gables and pinnacles alsosurmount the windows which fill all sides of thepolygonal apsis, and these, together with the pin-nacled buttresses, the slender tower rising at theintersection of the cross, flying arches and orna-mented balustrades, give such multiplicity of detail,such varied and ever changing outline, that the mindgrows weary in contemplating it, while at a littledistance, so minute and delicate appear all th
Size: 1156px × 2162px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1870, booksubjectarchitecture, bookyea
