Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy . PARIS SAINTE CHAPELLE CH. VIl] STE CHAPELLE *35 straight bays with large four-light windows, and seven Paris,narrow bays with two lights forming the apse (Fig. 52). chapeHe*6There being no aisles, the vaults, which are quadripartite,are sustained directly by buttresses. These buttressesare in fact walls set at right angles to the interior, andthere are no others from the window cills upwards : thewhole structure is a lantern of glass, divided by veryslender spars or piers of masonry. In the windows we find the system of Gothic traceryperfectl
Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy . PARIS SAINTE CHAPELLE CH. VIl] STE CHAPELLE *35 straight bays with large four-light windows, and seven Paris,narrow bays with two lights forming the apse (Fig. 52). chapeHe*6There being no aisles, the vaults, which are quadripartite,are sustained directly by buttresses. These buttressesare in fact walls set at right angles to the interior, andthere are no others from the window cills upwards : thewhole structure is a lantern of glass, divided by veryslender spars or piers of masonry. In the windows we find the system of Gothic traceryperfectly developed without any of the tentative attemptsthat we see at Reims. But the subject of window. Fig. 52. () tracery will be more fully dealt with in a special chapterhereafter. At the west end is an outside porch, and in thegable a large rose window which was inserted at alater date in place of the original design of Pierre deMontereau. The whole chapel has been a good deal restored, butit retains most of its fine original glass, among othermodern work ; for the old glass was partly dispersed,and two of the lights may be seen in our museum atSouth Kensington. The walls have been painted inmodern times with mock-mediaeval patterns and withan unhappy result. ,, CHAPTER VIII THE PROVINCIAL STYLES IS FRANCE Normandy Resem-blance ofarchitec-ture in•-rrriaruly and l ngland Slight in- flii-ii ofClassic of earlyNorman sculpture We have now traced the history of Gothic architecture in France to its full development in the Royal Domain, of which the typical instances arc Amicus and the art followed a rather different course in theprovinces, and though the influenc
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