. An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . y the waving, 262 THE FLAMBOYANT STYLE, flame-like character of the tracery (180). The clere-story windows of this style are generally large andimportant; and the back of the triforium being com-monly glazed also, makes that appear a continuationof the clerestory windows. The Doorways of this style are generally very rich ;the actual doors have usually flat heads, with an en-riched arch, or canopy, or shallow porch over them;and the space which in the earlier styles forms thetympanum, and is filled with sculpture, is usuallyoccupied by a
. An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . y the waving, 262 THE FLAMBOYANT STYLE, flame-like character of the tracery (180). The clere-story windows of this style are generally large andimportant; and the back of the triforium being com-monly glazed also, makes that appear a continuationof the clerestory windows. The Doorways of this style are generally very rich ;the actual doors have usually flat heads, with an en-riched arch, or canopy, or shallow porch over them;and the space which in the earlier styles forms thetympanum, and is filled with sculpture, is usuallyoccupied by a window in Flamboyant work, as atHarfleur, ISormandy (179). Mr. Eickman ob-serves, in describingthis style, that Itsessence seems to beelaborate and minuteornament, and thiscontinues until theforms and combina-tions are sadly de-based, and a strangemixture of Italianismjumbled with it. The arches of thisstyle vary exceedinglyin form; those overdoors and windowsare commonly nearlyflat, with the endsonly curved, and no point in the centre as at 181. St. Lo, Normandy, c. 1450. Shewing the arch-mouldings dying intothe round pillar without any capital orimpost. THE FLAMBOYANT STYLE. 263 The mouldings of the pier-arches commonly die intothe pillars without any capitals, as at St. Lo, Nor-mandy (181). The crockets are a conspicuous feature, being large,and distant from each other, when compared withEnglish examples. The effect of them is striking,and generally very good. The entire absence of battlements in Prench build-ings, whether as parapets or merely for ornament,as is so common in the English Perpendicular style,is very remarkable^. The mouldings of this style are a sort of caricature ofthe earlier styles,generally shallowand feeble, butoften much exag-gerated (182). The pillars aresometimes fluted,more often plainrounds, with thearch-mouldingsdying into themwithout any capi-tals, as at St. Lo (181); the bases are stilted, anda good deal like the Perpendicular bases. A
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