Identifier: gothicarchitectu01jackuoft (find matches)
Title: Gothic architecture in France, England, and Italy
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924
Subjects: Architecture, Gothic
Publisher: Cambridge, University Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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l. The lastthree capitals westward, belonging to the latest stage ofthe building operations, have foliage of 14th centurycharacter, crowded, confused, and inexpressive. The The basesdifference is shown in their bases as well as in thecapitals, for the quasi-Attic base of the other columns,like that at Paris (Fig. 22 c), with well-modelled toes atthe angles, is exchanged for a simpler section withoutthe scotia or hollow moulding. The vaulting throughout is quadripartite, the trans- The vaultsverse rib being accentuated, and the arrangement of theconstruction is masterly, without the tentative efforts ofprevious examples. The ritual choir is projected intothe first three bays of the choir westward of the transept,a local peculiarity which occurs also at S. Remy. Hereit was probably occasioned by the great space needed atroyal coronations, for it was at Reims that French kingswere crowned. In the chapels of the choir chevet Jean dOrbais has ii2 EARLY FRENCH GOTHIC (ch. vi Reims cathedral
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Fig. 45. (V.-le-Duc.) ch. vi) EARLY FRENCH GOTHIC 113 surpassed himself. They are incomparably the most Reimsbeautiful of their kind, and it would seem they madea great impression at the time they were built. Wilarsde Honecort sketched them in his queer way both insideand out, and writes in the margin This is how those atCambrai must be if they are made right1 (Fig. 45).The development of the chevct with its radiating chapels,from the unpretending projections of Senlis (Fig. 24,p. 6j), through the better defined plans at S. Denis,Noyon, and Chartres, was now perfected, and laterexamples are only variations on what we find at Reims.In their plan these chapels show a change of purpose, forthey begin with a circular base, which at the window cillis converted into a polygon, so as to provide a flat planefor the two-light traceried window between the buttresses,and escape the distortion which we see in the earlierexamples, where windows are opened in a curved surface. In these chapels, whi

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