. Architecture for general students. ed life. The battlements were enlivened byopen tracery; crocketed gables rose above thesev-eral portals ; the corner buttresses were crownedwith light pinnacles \ the vaulted halls and pas-sages presented the cross rib-work, the masked cor-bels, and foliated bosses of the perfected Gothic;and the edifice was rather a fortified mansion thana castle. Public Secular Edifices, — Yet the use of theGothic in secular architecture was not confined tothe feudal castle. In the northern countries greatprivileges were granted to municipal corporations,as a sort of equi
. Architecture for general students. ed life. The battlements were enlivened byopen tracery; crocketed gables rose above thesev-eral portals ; the corner buttresses were crownedwith light pinnacles \ the vaulted halls and pas-sages presented the cross rib-work, the masked cor-bels, and foliated bosses of the perfected Gothic;and the edifice was rather a fortified mansion thana castle. Public Secular Edifices, — Yet the use of theGothic in secular architecture was not confined tothe feudal castle. In the northern countries greatprivileges were granted to municipal corporations,as a sort of equipoise to the power and ambition ofthe nobles. Thus enfranchised, as it were, citiesformed commercial centres, whose burghers rapidlyincreased in wealth, while trade-guilds and othercorporations rose rapidly in importance. Thesevied with one another in the erection of costly edi-fices, which now remain among the finest specimensof medieval art. Of these may be mentioned theArtushof at Dantzic, erected by the Merchants ^oundat, AhTD. HOTEL DE VILLE AT BRUGES. Gothic Architecture. 191 Guild, and remarkable as one of the best specimensof fan-shaped vaulting, the vaults being supportedby two rows of richly polished granite columns,which divide the hall into three aisles. The sidevaults rest outwardly upon projecting corbels. Most magnificent of all these edifices are theHotels de Ville, or town halls, erected in the largercities of the Netherlands, which at this time sur-passed all the other countries of Europe in wealth,as in addition to its large carrying trade, it manu-factured woolen goods for the whole civilized buildings usually took the form of a parallel-ogram, with projecting towers at the four cornersand an immense bell-tower over the central part ofthe building. They were usually three stories inheight, and covered by a lofty steep roof, whoseinclosed space was divided into three stories, asplaces of storage, etc. The walls were pierced bynumerous windows or
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