. Teachers' manual for the Prang course in drawing for graded schools, books 1-6 . very much from the preceding great styles, intro-ducing pointed gables, pointed arches, vaults, pinnacles and towers. This style, likeall other styles of architecture, reflected the feelings and nature of the people fromwhom it came, — strong, skilful, aspiring, respecting the individual as well as themass, vigorous, full of new life and new thought. To those who clung to the old tra-ditions of the Greek and Roman styles, the new style seemed barbarous, and they HOOK VI.] DECORA T70X. HISTORIC ORXAMEXT. i8i call
. Teachers' manual for the Prang course in drawing for graded schools, books 1-6 . very much from the preceding great styles, intro-ducing pointed gables, pointed arches, vaults, pinnacles and towers. This style, likeall other styles of architecture, reflected the feelings and nature of the people fromwhom it came, — strong, skilful, aspiring, respecting the individual as well as themass, vigorous, full of new life and new thought. To those who clung to the old tra-ditions of the Greek and Roman styles, the new style seemed barbarous, and they HOOK VI.] DECORA T70X. HISTORIC ORXAMEXT. i8i called it the Gothic style in derision, for the Goths, who overran Europe in the earlyChristian centuries and made great conquests, were a tribe of barbarians. Lut theterm, first ai)plied as a reproach, has become a glory and now represents one of themost beautiful styles in architecture. The illustration on this page shows a magnifi-cent example of Gothic architecture — one of the gables of the Cathedral of gable is said never to have been surpassed in Decorative art had been much modified during this time by Christian symbolism,as seen in the quatrefoils and crosses. The quatrefoil is an example of historic orna-ment found noticeably in the Byzantine and Gothic styles, although as a simple figureit occurs occasionally in earlier and even in primitive ornament. It appeared promi-nently in architecture and in decoration early in the Christian centuries. The peopleloved to make and to have before them in their churches things that would remindthem of the religion that was so sacred to them. Therefore they put into their churchessymbolic figures, — figures which by their color, their shape, or the number embodied,would recall to them some part of their religion. Their decoration was full of sym-bols. All four-leaved figures stood to them as emblems of the four evangelists, Mat-thew, Mark, Luke and John; trefoils as emblems of the Trinity. The semicircl
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