For example, the illustration given on page 223 shows a number of traceries involving the construction of a square, the bisecting of angles, and the describing of circles.
Still more elaborate designs, based chiefly upon the square and circle, are shown in the window traceries on page 225, and others will be given in connection with the study of the regular polygons.
Window over window rises the fragile audacious sweep of color that closes the transept's northern vista, each part being bound by stone traceries into the monumental whole.
It displays several traceries and designs of high merit, among which I would call attention to the zigzag moulding which is so common in Norman architecture (Fig.
The roof has fallen in; the walls display wide breaches; but the masonry is still sharp and fresh, as when first put together, and the traceries might just have undergone the finishing touch.
They have lavished all their skill upon the decoration of this balcony, enriching it with delicate fretwork traceries and with figures placed at the angles of the roof.
And for the understanding of our Pisan traceries we must introduce a third element of similarly distinctive nature.
Footnote 1: The present traceries are of fifteenth century work, founded on Giovanni's design.
Yet here and there Half hid 'mid leafless groves they go; As men who ply through traceries high Of turreted marbles show-- So dwindle these to eyes below.
French roads, seems unaware of any degrees of beauty or appropriateness in objects of European design, and places against the exquisite mosaics and traceries of his Fazi craftsmen the tawdriest bric-a-brac of the cheap department-store.
And how came such fragile loveliness to survive, preserving, behind a screen of tumbling walls, of nettles and offal and dead beasts, every curve of its traceries and every cell of its honeycombing?
At last we came to a deserted square on one side of which stands the long low mosque of Mansourah with a turquoise-green minaret embroidered with traceries of sculptured terra cotta.
It is then, if ever, that he will learn to love the glowing brickwork of its churches and the quaint terra-cotta traceries that form its chief artistic charm.
The traceries of the three easternmost choir embrasures are filled with blue eaglets on a golden ground, the insignia of the Montmorencys.
Above these in the roomy oval traceries are scenes from the Passion.
Particularly note how, at the top of each sheaf of lancets, the delicate lines of the traceries flow upward and inward like flames aspiring from a broad-based fire, seeking the outlet above of a narrow chimney.
This same treatment of the traceries may also be remarked in the chapel of the chateau; in fact, they are all that remains there of the original glazing.
But little height is needed for this picture, so the traceries above come down low, and are filled by a throng of blue eaglets on a golden ground, the heraldic insignia of the Montmorencys.
Roger Dawson sat astride a stick of timber in front of Master Geoffrey Thompson's new house, watching Tom Carpenter the carver cut fleur-de-lis and curling traceries upon the front wall beams.
I noticed in one compartment some admirable traceries in solid oak, and before the high altar an elaborate gilt-bronze lamp--the gift of the wife of Louis Phillippe; but the most brilliant portion of the ulterior is the fresco painting.
It had recently been painted in the Byzantine style, and the fresco paintings were as varied and beautiful as the traceries of the frost upon our autumnal woods.
The point and value of the German tracery consists principally in turning the features of good traceries upside down, and cutting them in two where they are properly continuous.
Peculiar conditions, hereafter to be described, require the shafts of these traceries to become the main vertical supports of the floors and walls.
Eremitani, Padua, is very quaint and primitive in manner: it is a curious church altogether, and has some strange traceries cut out of single blocks.
At Amiens the arrangement is now seen to great disadvantage, for the early traceries have been replaced by base flamboyant ones, utterly weak and despicable.
Finally: there is an intermediate arrangement between the glazed and the open tracery, that of the domestic traceries of Venice.
The traceries were at first, however, restored in their complete form, as the holes for the bolts which fastened the bases of their shafts are still to be seen in the window-sills, as well as the marks of the inner mouldings on the soffits.
The pines clasp branches overhead in a lacy, broken roof whose pattern of needle and burr shows in dark traceries against patches of blue sky remote and far beyond.
The sky pulsed in ether waves and the distant peaks, azure also, with traceries of silver, were as dim as the memory of a dream.
The moonlight, shining through the tossing spray of the fountain, made traceries of shadow on the gleaming folds of her garments.
Inside, the stone walls were everywhere covered with significant traceries in low relief, and were incrusted at intervals with disks and tesserae of turquoise-colored porcelain.
Above was an equestrian statue in a niche, and a great painted window withtraceries of hearts and thistles.
And this last has the advantage of giving much more opportunity for variety of form and beauty of effect than any brick traceriescan ever give.
There is a fair campanile here, with brick traceries and strings, but with a modern belfry-stage.
The traceries of the Cavalli Palace are heavy and unsatisfactory, and contrast unfavourably with the greater simplicity of the windows in the Palazzo Barbaro.
They are of early Renaissance character, with some relic of Gothic feeling in the traceries of the backs and elbows.
There is another class of traceries which seems to have been essentially an Italian invention, and which is as objectionable as any tracery that I know.
The addition of chapels beyond the aisles and the traceries in their windows make the design a little less bald and insipid, and also give a somewhat truer impression of the real scale than one has at Florence.
The windows are all filled with traceries which are certainly not at all equal to English tracery, as they are very flat in their effect, and have no proper subordination of parts.
The next stage is later, and has three arches with traceries carried upon chevroned and twisted shafts, with a statue of the Virgin and Child in the centre.
Paul has the unusual feature of a cornice under the external eaves effectively painted in the fifteenth century, with elaborate and very German traceries in red and buff, which are still fairly perfect.
Then, by introducing mullions and traceries into the lower part of the window, they added stem and bough forms to those flower forms.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "traceries" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
