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ILLUSTRATION G

late Gothic has an organic feel & reflects “naturalistic branches” especially in the vaulting of its great cathedrals.

 

left image--The chancel of Gloucester Cathedral ( 1337–57)

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right image--King's College Chapel, Cambridge (1446-1515) is an example of late Perpendicular English Gothic architecture, spanning the Wars of the Roses & into the Tudors.i

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closing Baroque also displays “naturalistic branches, shoots, twigs and leaves”.

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Rococo was an interior design, small, feminine, decorative rather than formal or majestic; it was used on both secular & church interiors as well as providing patterns for small objects & furniture

 

image left: Salon of the Hôtel de Soubise in Paris (1735–40) by Germain Boffrand

image right candelabras attributed to Jacques Caffieri, from the Colorno Castle, circa 1750

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Decline of the West, Chapter XI:  Faustian & Apollonian Nature-Knowledge 
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