tracery

Examples of tracery in the following topics:

• Architecture

  • The Gothic style arose largely from the introduction of large windows, often filled with stained glass and subdivided by decorative stone tracery.
  • It is typified by the simplicity of its vaults and tracery, the use of lancet windows and smaller amounts of sculptural decoration than either Romanesque or later varieties of Gothic.
  • Increasing proliferation and elaboration of sculptural decoration and tracery and the emergence of more complex and decorative vaults marked the transition to Decorated Gothic (late 13th-late 14th centuries).

• English Gothic Architecture

  • Decorated architecture is characterized by its window tracery, which are elaborate patterns that fill the top portions of windows.
  • The tracery style was geometric at first, and flowing in the later period during the 14th century.
  • The west front of York Minster Cathedral is a fine example of Decorated architecture, in particular the elaborate tracery on the main window.

• Senufo

  • The phrase may also refer to the finished product, from individual sculptures, to hand-worked moldings composing part of a tracery.

• Abstract Expressionist Sculpture

  • His work  blurred the distinctions between sculpture and painting, generally making use of delicate tracery rather than solid form, with a two-dimensional appearance that contradicted the traditional idea of sculpture in the round.

• Gothic Architecture: The Abbey Church of Saint Denis

  • Solid masonry was replaced with vast window openings filled with brilliant stained glass and interrupted only by the most slender of bar tracery—not only in the clerestory but also, perhaps for the first time, in the normally dark triforium level.

• Gothic Cathedrals

  • The pointed arch lent itself to elaborate intersecting shapes, which developed complex Gothic tracery within window spaces and formed the structural support of the large windows that are characteristic of the style.

• Chartreuse de Champmol

  • Underneath the slab on which the effigies rested, small unpainted pleurants (mourners) were set among Gothic tracery.

• The Gothic Revival

  • The windows, tracery, carvings, and ribs make up a bewildering display of decoration where almost every surface is decorated with a profusion of shapes and patterns.

• Characteristics of Romanesque Architecture

  • Later Romanesque churches may have wheel windows or rose windows with plate tracery.

• Norman Stained Glass

  • Whereas the lower windows in the nave arcades and the ambulatory consist of one simple lancet per bay, the clerestory windows are each made up of a pair of lancets with a plate-traceried rose window above.