A comprehensive review of the wide and varied range of window tracery designs that emerged during the medieval period. While the terms used to describe the tracery of medieval church windows are familiar (Early English, Decorated, Perpendicular), there has been no really detailed attempt to examine it as a distinct, stylistic architectural form, agap which this book seeks to address. Based upon a visual catalogue of over 250 images of surviving types and styles from churches throughout England, it traces the progression of ideas and the continuity of motifs and themes intracery patterns from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries, showing how different themes emerged within the main architectural styles; it also looks at the distinction between a window's architectural form and its tracery style, and describes the several different tracery techniques. The volume is completed with a detailed glossary. Stephen Hart is a retired architect, and the author of numerous works, including Flint Flushwork.
| ISBN: | 9781843837602 |
| Publication date: | 19th July 2012 |
| Author: | Stephen Hart |
| Publisher: | The Boydell Press an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 184 pages |
| Genres: |
History of art Architecture: religious buildings |
A comprehensive review of the wide and varied range of window tracery designs that emerged during the medieval period. While the terms used to describe the tracery of medieval church windows are familiar (Early English, Decorated, Perpendicular), there has been no really detailed attempt to examine it as a distinct, stylistic architectural form, agap which this book seeks to address. Based upon a visual catalogue of over 250 images of surviving types and styles from churches throughout England, it traces the progression of ideas and the continuity of motifs and themes intracery patterns from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries, showing how different themes emerged within the main architectural styles; it also looks at the distinction between a window's architectural form and its tracery style, and describes the several different tracery techniques. The volume is completed with a detailed glossary. Stephen Hart is a retired architect, and the author of numerous works, including Flint Flushwork.
Medieval Church Window Tracery in England features in the following genres: History of art, Architecture: religious buildings
Medieval Church Window Tracery in England is available in Paperback
Medieval Church Window Tracery in England was written by Stephen Hart and published by The Boydell Press an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Medieval Church Window Tracery in England has 184 pages