[Gothic Art (3) [continued (19):]] European art in the 15th century [ce] [continued (6)][15th March 1991]

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‘With much of this development English art seems out-of-step, chiefly because many of the crucial developments in curvilinear tracery had happened much earlier, to be superseded by the more rectilinear approach of the so-called Perpendicular style....

‘Nevertheless, if we review north-European achievements of the late 15^th and early 16^th centuries – at least in sculpture and architecture – it will be apparent that there is a remarkable community of taste.... Commitment to vivid, lifelike sculpture goes hand-in-hand with a desire to display intricate, decorative richness in the setting of the sculpture... *On the whole, visual richness was demanded and enjoyed.’

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**– ibid [Encylopaedia of Visual Art 4: 619]

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