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GERMAN GOTHIC.
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f. Mouldings.—Complexity rather than simplicity was
striven after. Interpenetration of mouldings (fifteenth cen-
tury) was a very characteristic treatment, i.e. in bases, etc.,
each member, after passing through another, is traced out
and provided with its own base and cap, etc. Much patience
is bestowed upon the intricacies that resulted from such
interpenetrations.
Features such as pinnacles increase in size as they get
higher, and therefore scale is destroyed, as at Cologne.
Features do not increase in size in English and French
work.
G. Decoration.—Foliage was treated in a naturalesque
manner, and the interlacing of boughs and branches is a
common feature.
In fittings the Tabernacle, or Sacrament House, was
developed as a separate structure placed at one side. Late
examples are lofty and tower-like, tapering upwards in many
stages of wonderfully complicated work. Stained glass and
ironwork are well treated.
5. REFERENCE BOOKS.
W. Whewell, “Notes on Churches.”
W. Liibke, “ Ecclesiastical Art.”
G. Moller, “ Denkmaehler der Deutschen Baukunst.”
“Anne of Geierstein,” by Sir W. Scott. (Historical
Novel.)
181
f. Mouldings.—Complexity rather than simplicity was
striven after. Interpenetration of mouldings (fifteenth cen-
tury) was a very characteristic treatment, i.e. in bases, etc.,
each member, after passing through another, is traced out
and provided with its own base and cap, etc. Much patience
is bestowed upon the intricacies that resulted from such
interpenetrations.
Features such as pinnacles increase in size as they get
higher, and therefore scale is destroyed, as at Cologne.
Features do not increase in size in English and French
work.
G. Decoration.—Foliage was treated in a naturalesque
manner, and the interlacing of boughs and branches is a
common feature.
In fittings the Tabernacle, or Sacrament House, was
developed as a separate structure placed at one side. Late
examples are lofty and tower-like, tapering upwards in many
stages of wonderfully complicated work. Stained glass and
ironwork are well treated.
5. REFERENCE BOOKS.
W. Whewell, “Notes on Churches.”
W. Liibke, “ Ecclesiastical Art.”
G. Moller, “ Denkmaehler der Deutschen Baukunst.”
“Anne of Geierstein,” by Sir W. Scott. (Historical
Novel.)