An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . The crockets area conspicuous feature,being large, and dis-tant from each other,when compared withEnglish effect of them isstriking, and generallyvery good. The entire absenceof battlements in Frenchbuildings, whether asparapets or merely forornament, as is so com-mon in the Perpen- 169 st Lo Noiraandy, c. Hd0. dicular Style, IS Very Shewing the arch-mouldings dying into the kin round pillar without any capital or impo3t. able. The mouldings of this style are a sort of caricature ofthe earlier styles,generally shallowand feeble
An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . The crockets area conspicuous feature,being large, and dis-tant from each other,when compared withEnglish effect of them isstriking, and generallyvery good. The entire absenceof battlements in Frenchbuildings, whether asparapets or merely forornament, as is so com-mon in the Perpen- 169 st Lo Noiraandy, c. Hd0. dicular Style, IS Very Shewing the arch-mouldings dying into the kin round pillar without any capital or impo3t. able. The mouldings of this style are a sort of caricature ofthe earlier styles,generally shallowand feeble, butoften much exag-gerated (170). The pillars aresometimes fluted,more often plainrounds, with thearch-mouldingsdying into themwithout any capi-tals, as at St. Lo (see 169); the bases are stilted, anda good deal like the Perpendicular bases. Another. 170. Villequier, Normandy, o mouldings. 222 THE FLAMBOYANT STYLE. pillar which is very characteristic of this style consistsof a series of rounds andhollows, in a sort of un-dulating line, without anyfillets or other marked di-vision, as at Abheville(171). Rich open parapets andgallery fronts are a strik-ing feature of this panelling and iron-work are also very richand characteristic. The Flamboyant stylecontinued in use through-out the fifteenth and six-teenth centuries, and partof the seventeenth,though gettinggradually moreand more mixedwith the revivedclassical singular mix-ture of stylesknown by the name of the Renaissance often preseitsvery picturesque combinations and striking effects; itis generally superior to the Elizabethan and Jacobanstyles, which correspond to it in England.
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