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FLAMBOYANT STYLE

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 469 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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STYLE , the See also:term given to the phase of See also:Gothic See also:architecture in See also:France which corresponds in See also:period to the Perpendicular style. The word literally means " flowing " or " flaming," in consequence of the resemblance to the curved lines of See also:flame in window See also:tracery. The earliest examples of flowing tracery are found in See also:England in the later phases of the Decorated style, where, in consequence of the omission of the enclosing circles of the tracery, the carrying through of the foliations resulted in a See also:curve of contrary flexure of See also:ogee See also:form and hence the term flowing tracery. In the See also:minster and the See also:church of St See also:Mary at See also:Beverley, dating from 1320 and 1330, are the earliest examples in England; in France its first employment See also:dates from about 146o, and it is now generally agreed that the flamboyant style was introduced from See also:English See also:sources. One of the See also:chief characteristics of the flamboyant style in France is that known as " interpenetration," in which the See also:base See also:mouldings of one See also:shaft are penetrated by those of a second shaft of which the faces are set diagonally. This interpenetration, which was in a sense a tour de force of See also:French masons, was carried to such an extent that in a lofty See also:rood-See also:screen the mouldings penetrating the base-See also:mould would be found to be those of a See also:diagonal See also:buttress situated 20 to 30 ft. above it. It was not limited, however, tointernal See also:work; in See also:late 15th and See also:early 16th See also:century ecclesiastical architecture it is found on the facades of some French cathedrals, and often on the outside of chapels added in later times.

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