. Art in France. FIO. 202.—SOUTH PORCH OF THECHURCH OF LOUVJERS. FIC. 203.—CHURCH OF TRINITE,VENDOME. vast enterprises. They loved to elaborate a portion of a building;they displayed their skill in the treatment of stone, which theycarved like wood and twisted like iron. When, after the agitationsof the Hundred Years War, building wasresumed, pointed architecture blossomedfor half a century into the Flamboyantstyle. It may have been an importation fromEngland. It is even less monumental,even more exclusively decorative than theRayonnant style of the fourteenth century,for it turned every o
. Art in France. FIO. 202.—SOUTH PORCH OF THECHURCH OF LOUVJERS. FIC. 203.—CHURCH OF TRINITE,VENDOME. vast enterprises. They loved to elaborate a portion of a building;they displayed their skill in the treatment of stone, which theycarved like wood and twisted like iron. When, after the agitationsof the Hundred Years War, building wasresumed, pointed architecture blossomedfor half a century into the Flamboyantstyle. It may have been an importation fromEngland. It is even less monumental,even more exclusively decorative than theRayonnant style of the fourteenth century,for it turned every organ of the Gothicbuilding into ornament. Nevertheless, itdid not violate the principles of this archi-tecture; it merely carried them a littlebeyond their logical consequences, piercingthe solids, dividing the vital forces of themasonry. Tympana became concave, andwere covered with a perfect network oftracery; towers sprang skyward withno solid supporting walls, by means of littlesuperposed pinnacles and fly
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