tracery

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bars or ribs, usually of stone or wood, or other material, that subdivide an opening or stand in relief against a door or wall as an ornamental feature
In architecture, bars or ribs used decoratively in windows, especially the ornamental openwork in Gothic windows. In the earliest phase, two or three narrow, arched windows were placed close together under a single large arch, with the section of wall between the small and large arches pierced by a circular or four-lobed opening. The complexity of this plate tracery increased, reaching a climax in the magnificent windows of Chartres Cathedral. After 1220 windows began to be subdivided by mullions, or upright bars, that continued at the head of the window to branch and form the patterns of bar tracery. Elaborate bar tracery soon became one of the most important elements of Gothic architecture and one of its finest achievements, as in the rose windows of the French Rayonnant style. The bar tracery of the parallel English Decorated style formed netlike patterns based on the circle, arch, trefoil, and quatrefoil. By the late 14th century, the Perpendicular style replaced curvilinear tracery with straight mullions extending to the top of the main arch, connected at intervals by horizontal bars
[n] lacy openwork design made of interlacing lines
an ornamental pattern made of stone in a church window
The ornamental stonework in Gothic windows; also a style of ornamentation applied to screens, walls, etc
was developed mainly in British cathedrals and was used to bring attention to the windows in a building because of conservative interior designs
Intersecting ribwork in upper part of window
decoration consisting of an open pattern of interlacing ribs
The thin stone supporting pieces in a gothic window, characterized by interlacing or branching forms
the thin stone or wooden bars in a Gothic window, screen, or pannel, which create an elaborate decorative matrix or pattern
Arched ornamental work with interlacing, branching lines Usually consists of openwork in the head of a Gothic window
An ornamental configuration of curved mullions in a Gothic sash
the ornamental intersecting stonework in the upper part of a window, screen or panel
{i} ornament, embellishment
when interweaving or branching out in ornamental or graceful figures
Gothic window ornamentation depending on window mullions in elaborate flowing or geometrical patterns built up of curved lengths of mortared stone molding
intersecting ribwork in the upper part of a window, or used decoratively in blank arches, on vaults, etc
Delicate latticelike forms of bars and lines, whose spaces either contain glass or are left open Derived from Gothic windows in which a framework within any large window was necessary to hold the glass (which at that time was manufactured in small sections) Tracery should properly contain separate pieces of glass, but most modern work uses a cutout pattern of filigree over a single pane of glass
A tracing of lines; a system of lines produced by, or as if by, tracing, esp
the geometrical architectural ornamentation which is used in Gothic architecture to subdivide the upper parts of the arches belonging to large windows, and later to subdivide gable ends, walls, and other surfaces
loose term (deriving from Sir Christopher Wren and not found in medieval contracts) for the repeating, lace-like patterns of lines, bars and lobe-like decoration found in Gothic architecture furniture More delicacy is achievable by woodcarvers because wooden tracery is non-weight bearing, unlike stone May be pierced or panelled Usually laid out geometrically although the oldest are done purely by eye See foil, cusp, trefoil, quatrefoil cinquefoil
Ornamental stone or wood pattern work formed by the branching of mullions, and filling the upper portion of a window
Intersecting rib work in upper part of window
fan tracery
the carved tracery on fan vaulting
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