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‘... The entire upper half of the main elevation of St-Denis is a succession of huge windows, filled with patterns of window tracery. At the same time, huge rose windows were inserted into the transept ends: it is this particular “radiating” feature that has given the name “Rayonnant” to the architectural style as a whole. The lightness and grace* of this type of architecture remained a feature of most subsequent Gothic architectural development in France; the manipulations of the two features of St-Denis, the tracery** pattern and the tracery** screen, became the preoccupations that most occupied subsequent masons.’

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*↑#(cf above)

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↑[(Presumably,) [Redbook8:326-327][19910314:1020j][Gothic Art (2)(continued (16)):] High Gothic [14th March 1991],] 326,

↑[(Presumably,) [Redbook8:328][19910314:1020l][Gothic Art (2)(continued (18)):] High Gothic [continued (3)][14th March 1991],] 328

↓[(Presumably,) [Redbook8:342][19910314:1020#][Gothic Art (2)(continued (#)):] High Gothic [continued (#)][14th March 1991],] 342

↓[(Presumably,) [Redbook8:347][19910314:1020#][The Discovery of Light (3), Space and Expression (2) [continued (#)][14th March 1991],] 347

}

**[sic]

***– ibid [Encylopaedia of Visual Art 4:] 603

****(& on St-Denis, see also ibid [Encylopaedia of Visual Art 4:] 593-594 (East end) (& Illus[tration]), 597 (West end) (& Illus[tration]), 602 (Nave & transepts)

(See ibid [Encylopaedia of Visual Art 4:] 603 re Louis IX’s Sainte Chapelle)

(See E[ncylopaedia of] V[isual] A[rt 4:] 595 illus[tration] for 8- & 16- petalled rose window – most are 12)

#[More probably in the ms a slight rightward arced arrow, possibly representing the G~ arc]

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