An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . E DECORATED FRENCH STYLE. 21J The Decokated Style in Erance does not differ somaterially from the same style in England as to requirea separate description. There are comparatively fewlarge buildings of this style in France; it appears thatthe greater part of their cathedrals were rebuilt in thethirteenth century, or at least the rebuilding was com-menced in the early part of that century, and continuedrigorously in imitation of the same style throughoutthe fourteenth. In many instances where the cathedralitself is of ear-lier date, thechap
An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture . E DECORATED FRENCH STYLE. 21J The Decokated Style in Erance does not differ somaterially from the same style in England as to requirea separate description. There are comparatively fewlarge buildings of this style in France; it appears thatthe greater part of their cathedrals were rebuilt in thethirteenth century, or at least the rebuilding was com-menced in the early part of that century, and continuedrigorously in imitation of the same style throughoutthe fourteenth. In many instances where the cathedralitself is of ear-lier date, thechapels betweenthe buttresses,with their largewindows of theDecorated style(166), were in-troduced in thefourteenth cen-tury, or the lat-ter part of thethirteenth. Itis worthy ofnotice that theball-flower or-nament, whichis almost as cha-racteristic ofthe Decorated 166. Bayeu* cau»d«i. c. im style in England as the tooth-ornament is of the EarlyEnglish, is also rarely found in Erance, and then not inDecorated work, but in transition work of the end of. 2l8 THE FLAMBOYANT STYLE. the twelfth century, and this more especially in Anjouand Poitou. The Decorated style in France appears to have heenchanged into the Flamboyant much more rapidly thanin England it gave way to the Perpendicular. Ex-amples of pure Decorated tracery, either geometrical orflowing, distinct alike from the foliated circles andtrefoils of the Early English and Early French, andfrom the vagaries of the Flamboyant, seem to be com-paratively rare in France. The Flamboyant Style is essentially different fromany of the English styles, and although obviously con-temporaneous with the Perpendicular, has very fewfeatures in common with it. The varieties of Flamboyant work found in differentcountries, and different provinces, are almost endless,and would require a volume to describe them all. TheFlamboyant of France is very different from that ofSpain or of Belgium, of Holland or of Germany, andno two of these are alike.
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