Nuremberg and its art to the end of the 18th century. . , but dormer windowsappear already, as a typical decorative feature of the tall roofs, the forms and DORMER WINDOWS. I — colour of which give so extraordinary a charm to the view over the houses turned, not their gables, but their steep sloping roofs to the streets;it was only at the end of the century that stone gables came back into give the necessary light to the many stories in the roof, great and smalldormers were used, breaking and enlivening in the most charming way the •3f. Fig. 109. Dormers of no. 31, Brunnenga
Nuremberg and its art to the end of the 18th century. . , but dormer windowsappear already, as a typical decorative feature of the tall roofs, the forms and DORMER WINDOWS. I — colour of which give so extraordinary a charm to the view over the houses turned, not their gables, but their steep sloping roofs to the streets;it was only at the end of the century that stone gables came back into give the necessary light to the many stories in the roof, great and smalldormers were used, breaking and enlivening in the most charming way the •3f. Fig. 109. Dormers of no. 31, by F. Schmidt. tall expanses of red tiles. The small dormers have simple round-arched openings;the big ones,— in the middle over the edge of the roof, or set at the cornersof the front,— have round-arched openings, both in front and on their sides,between handsome pillars. Here again the panels contain tracery. The dor-mers are, as a rule, covered by polygonal, pointed roofs, covered with tiles(fig- 109). 156 FACADES AND ORIELS. The fagades of the houses are usually simple in character, with smoothmasonry. Oriels formed, at that time, their only adornment, except for thepaintings, which, though old engravings show various examples of them, havenowhere been preserved. The oriel, or Chorlein, had by this time lost its ori-ginal significance as the choir of the domestic chapel, and had become a Fig. iio. The Kutschcrhof in the by F. Schmidt. nook for study or a comfortable corner for conversation. It was
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