A History of Architecture Volume 3 epub
A History of Architecture Volume 3 epub

A History of Architecture Volume 3 by Jr. Russell Sturgis
A History of Architecture Volume 3
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Author: Jr. Russell Sturgis
Page Count: 90 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: Englishhttps://d1w7fb2mkkr3kw.cloudfront.net/assets/images/book/large/9781/2365/9781236506153.jpg
ISBN: 9781231932292
File size: 12 Mb
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...toward unification of design. The primitive scheme of a circular opening in a solid wall which was used at Laon (Pig. 34), Chartres (Fig. 49) and Notre Dame (Fig. 26), was largely replaced by that of an opening framed in a pointed discharging arch, though it survived until the end in such flamboyant masterpieces as the great rose of Amiens 198--Evolution of wheel window. (From Viollet-le Duc.) (Fig. 61). Such large central pointed untraceried windows as that of Senlis (Fig. 18) heralded the second type, illustrated by the facade of Coutances (Fig. 93), and in its more developed and lighter forms in one of the minor roses over the portals of the west front at Reims (Fig. 82). The present main rose at Reims, seen in Figs. 54 and 55, is not part of the original scheme. Perhaps the drawing in Fig. 53, which is of the Coutances type, represents the first draft. The restor 199--Rose window and gallery of south transept 200--Detail of rose window of the Ste. at Notre Dame, Paris. (From Viollet-le-Duc.) Chapelle in Paris. (From Viollet-le-Duc.) discharging arch was the design actually carried out at first, and that the present somewhat disconnected pointed discharging arch (Fig. 54), with its tracery, was a modification. This final Reims type remained popular until the close of the Gothic period and can be studied, for example, in Fig. 134, at Toul. In this connection it must be noted that the plain central pointed window, without any inscribed rose, of the Senlis-Coutances type, also continued, as is shown in the flamboyant facade at Vendome (Fig. 133). Meanwhile a third type was coming into general use: the simpler form of the wheel or rose set in a square panel. It was originally a variant of the Notre Dame type, and it can be seen in Fig. 106 at Poitiers. Its m...

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