- The
flying buttress (arc-boutant, arch
buttress) is a
specific form of
buttress composed of a
ramping arch that
extends from the
upper portion of a wall...
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clamped buttress Diagonal or 'french'
buttress Setback buttress Examples of
Buttresses A
buttress and a
flying buttress,
mostly concealed,
supporting walls...
- arch in turn led to the
development of the
pointed rib
vault and
flying buttresses,
combined with
elaborate tracery and
stained gl**** windows. At the...
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Romanesque style,
including its
pioneering use of the rib
vault and
flying buttress, its
enormous and
colourful rose windows, and the
naturalism and abundance...
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American graphic novel publisher.
Founded by
Terry Nantier in 1976 as
Flying Buttress Publications, NBM is one of the
oldest graphic novel publishers in...
- to rows of
columns and
outside the
walls to
another innovation, the
flying buttress.
Gothic appeared in the Île-de-France
region of France,
around Paris...
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characteristics are verticality, or height, and the use of the rib
vault and
flying buttresses and
other architectural innovations to
distribute the
weight of the...
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early 13th century. The building's
exterior is
dominated by
heavy flying buttresses which allowed the
architects to
increase the
window size significantly...
- tracery, was
attached to both
interior walls and the facade. Even the
flying buttresses were
given elaborate decoration; they were
crowned by
small tabernacles...
- of the
flying buttress in
Gothic architecture allowed structures to
maintain an open
interior space,
transferring more
weight to the
buttresses instead...
