Flamboyant - Flame like, applied to aspects of the Late Gothic Style, particularly tracery.
Flamboyant Gothic - The last phase of French Gothic (fourteenth, fifteenth and part of sixteenth century), named after its flame-like tracery.
Flamboyant style
The closing period of French Gothic during the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. A style characterized by tracery designs which resemble upward spiraling flames, dominant in the north of France.
Flamboyant Gothic. Style of Gothic architecture which came into being at the end of the 14th and beginning of the 15th centuries.
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Flamboyant tracery at Limoges Cathedral.
The Flamboyant Arch is one that is drafted from four points, the upper part of each main arc turning upwards into a smaller arc and meeting at a sharp, flame-like point.
Flamboyant- A Late Gothic ornamentation style that is flamelike and very lacy in appearance (South Entrance Beauvais)
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Tripartite Elevation- Three story elevation used in High and Late Gothic.
Flamboyant Style
Flamboyant architecture originated in the 1380s with French court architect Guy de Dammartin.
aureate, flamboyant
fancy - not plain; decorative or ornamented; "fancy handwriting"; "fancy clothes"
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Flamboyant balustrade from the Chateau of Josselyn....
Bangor Cathedral, Caernarvonshire
The site of Bangor Cathedral was originally occupied by St. Deiniol's monastery, established in the 6th century around c.
Romantic and flamboyant, Queen Anne houses come in many sizes and shapes. From charming cottages to towered mansions, these photographs show the beauty and variety of Victorian Queen Anne architecture. Is your house a Queen Anne? Send us a photo! ...
Flamboyant The late Gothic style in France, characterized by long wavy tracery designs. flushwork A decorative technique for exterior walls, in which designs are picked out in white stone against a background of flint cobbles.
In the château of Meillant (1503) the chimney shafts are decorated with angle buttresses, niches and canopies, in the late Flamboyant style; and at Chambord and Blois they are carved with pilasters and niches with panelling above, ...
From the end of the sixteenth century slavish copying of the Classical style was gradually replaced; characteristic features of the new style are flamboyant decoration, increased use of windows and curves, and growing European influences.
The delicate and fantastic beauty of Flamboyant detail is unquestionable, and, as decoration, the lacelike webs of thinness, graceful curving forms, and craftily spotted lights and shades, as they appear in Rouen, Troyes, ...
FlamboyantThe latest phase of French Gothic architecture, with flowing tracery.Flared headerA brick laid with its short end exposed and burnt to a darker shade, usually producing a patterned effect.
Decorated Gothic (1275-1375) - aka Geometric, Curvilinear, and Flamboyant - These terms describe primarily the fanciful tracery and ornamentation found in the window heads during this time.
While early Victorian buildings were simple in style, Queen Anne homes at their peak were fanciful and flamboyant, incorporating eclectic motifs drawn from many historical sources.
Perpendicular style - the name given to late 15th century English Gothic architecture as lines became longer and carving more elaborate. Also know as Flamboyant style.
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Rococo
- a decorative style of art and architecture often characterised by "shell-shapes", became the final, and most flamboyant, phase of the baroque.
France
Gothic architecture in France may be divided into four periods: Early Gothic, lancet Gothic, Rayonnet Gothic, and Late, or Flamboyant, Gothic.
The period of mediaeval architecture characterised by the use of the pointed arch. For its subdivisions see Early English, Geometric, Decorated, Perpendicular and Flamboyant
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Tracery: Geometrically constructed building ornament such as a foil found in the upper part of Gothic rose windows (fig.2, C). This type of stonework decoration became more complex during the High Gothic and Flamboyant phase.
modification of the Romanesque style, the cathedrals of the Early Gothic period - the twelfth century - evolved triumphantly into the High Gothic structures of the thirteenth, and the impassioned churches of the Rayonnant and the Flamboyant ...
 See also: Architecture, Church, Arches, Gothic, Roman
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