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‘The high Gothic period (outside Italy) 1250-1300. Up to c[irca]1230[ce],* the major architects of France had been preoccupied with structure and engineering, following the liberating acceptance of the flying buttress. Around 1230[ce], however, they must have realised that building enlarged versions of Chartres Cathedral could no longer constitute progress....’

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*2048J~1280[ce]

**– ibid [Encylopaedia of Visual Art 4: 602]

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