An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture (1861) (14594819879)

Identifier: gri_33125007510817 (find matches) Title: An introduction to the study of Gothic architecture Year: 1861 (1860s) Authors: Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 Subjects: Architecture, Gothic Publisher: Oxford London : J.H. and J. Parker Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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Text Appearing Before Image: Lincoln Cathedral, .1200.Pillar of Choir. Text Appearing After Image: 9° THE EARLY ENGLISH STYLE. The cathedral of Grenoble is poor and low, and has nothingwhatever to correspond with the work of St. Hugh at Lincoln ; thecathedral of Vienne, the ancient capital city of the province ofDauphiny, in which Grenoble is situated, has some very fine work,but quite of a different character from Lincoln; the cathedral ofLyons, now the chief city of the province, has also some finework, and a remarkable series of windows exhibiting progressivechanges in plate-tracery; and the fluted pilasters in imitation ofRoman work which are used in that cathedral and many otherchurches of that district, as at Cluny, at the end of the twelfthcentury, are supposed by some persons to have given the idea ofthe clustered shafts at Lincoln ; but if so, the progress was won-derfully rapid: the exact date of the work at Lyons has notbeen ascertained. At Dijon, the capital of the French duchy ofBurgundy at a later period, there is work very like Lincoln, espe-cially in the church of

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