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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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R01 1-N CATHEDRAL -Portail des Libraires Plate L VI ■: -
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ROUEN CATHEDRAL—North Entrance Screen ch. x) LATER GEOMETRICAL 179 than inspiration.1 It was not till Gothic woke to freshlife in the Flamboyant style that it achieved any furthersignal artistic triumphs in France. One of the most successful works of the later French Rouen.Geometrical style is the north transept of the cathedral at LibraireSCSRouen, with the Portrail des Libraires, which is datedabout 12S0, and of which Jean Davi is said to have beenthe architect (Plate LY). If this is compared with theearlier facades it will be seen how attenuated all thedetails had become at the end of the 13th century, howthin and wiry the mouldings, and how shallow therecessing of the planes. A long narrow court leads up to this portal, entered itsfrom the street at the other end through a magnificent screendouble gateway or screen, erected in 1484, where we findfully developed the next and final stage of French Gothic Fiam-(Plate LVI). But to the Flamboyant style we shall return cotWcin a later

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