Tracery
Tracery is a device used in architecture by which windows (or screens, panels, and vaults) are divided into different parts by stone bars.[1] It most commonly refers to the stoneworks that support the glass in a window. Tracery can also be found on the inside and outside of buildings.[2]
Tracery Media
- Laon Cathédrale Notre-Dame Nordrosette.jpg
Plate tracery, Laon Cathedral, north rose window
- Lincoln Cathedral, Deans eye window (38137302184).jpg
Plate tracery, Lincoln Cathedral "Dean's Eye" rose window (c. 1225)
- Gothic-Rayonnant Rose-6.jpg
Rayonnant bar tracery, Notre-Dame de Paris, north rose window
Bar tracery with cusped circles, Reims Cathedral, apse chapel
- Above the south Rose Window on the Notre Dame.jpg
Rayonnant bar tracery, Notre-Dame de Paris, south rose window
- 20130406 Ely Cathedral 01.jpg
Geometrical bar tracery, Ely Cathedral, Lady Chapel, west window
- Decorated Tracery Lindfield Church West Sussex.jpg
Decorated bar tracery, All Saints Church, Lindfield, east window
- St Marys Church Cottingham.JPG
Curvilinear bar tracery, Cottingham, East Riding of Yorkshire, parish church
- King's College Chapel, Cambridge - The Great East Window.jpg
Perpendicular bar tracery, King's College Chapel, Cambridge, great east window
- Orna019-Masswerk.png
Tracery and its design in A Handbook of Ornament by Franz Sales Meyer (1898)
References
- ↑ Curl, James Stevens (2015). The Oxford dictionary of architecture. Susan Wilson (Third ed.). New York. ISBN 978-0-19-967498-5. OCLC 907380369.
- ↑ Honour, Hugh (2009). A world history of art : a History. John Fleming (Revised seventh ed.). London. ISBN 978-1-78067-117-8. OCLC 941907107.
