Although such efforts are now regarded as mistaken, the resulting terms have to some extent survived ( Rayonnant and Flamboyant are still widely used by art historians, though the misleading old term Lancet Gothic has generally given way to High Gothic ).

Tours Cathedral: 15th century Flamboyant Gothic west front with Renaissance pinnacles, completed 1547.

Flamboyant tracery at Cathédrale Saint-Étienne de Limoges | Limoges Cathedral.

The Flamboyant Arch is one that is drafted from four points, the upper part of each main arc turning upwards into a smaller arc and meeting at a sharp, flame-like point.

Doorways surmounted by Flamboyant mouldings are very common in both ecclesiastical and domestic architecture in France.

Two South American species of trees, the Jacaranda and the Flamboyant, which were introduced during the colonial era, contribute to the city's colour palette with streets lined with either the lilac blossoms of the Jacaranda or the flame red blooms from the Flamboyant.

Fifteen huge mid-13th century windows fill the nave and apse, while a large rose window with Flamboyant tracery ( added to the upper chapel c. 1490 ) dominates the western wall.

The building's exterior is dominated by heavy flying buttresses which allowed the architects to increase the window size significantly, while the west end is dominated by two contrasting spires – a 105-metre ( 349 ft ) plain pyramid dating from the 1140s and a 113-metre ( 377 ft ) early 16th century Flamboyant spire on top of an older tower.

Once in royal hands, the château became a favourite of French kings, from Louis XI to Francis I. Charles VIII decided to rebuild it extensively, beginning in 1492 at first in the French late Gothic Flamboyant style and then after 1495 employing two Italian mason-builders, Domenico da Cortona and Fra Giocondo, who provided at Amboise some of the first Renaissance decorative motifs seen in French architecture.

Antoine was heavily in debt and in 1455, sold the château to Jacques d ’ Espinay, son of a chamberlain to the Duke of Brittany and himself chamberlain to the king ; Espinay built the chapel, completed by his son Charles in 1612, in which the Flamboyant Gothic style is mixed with new Renaissance motifs, and began the process of rebuilding the fifteenth-century château that resulted in the sixteenth-seventeenth century aspect of the structure to be seen today.

The rood screen is a filigree work in stone in the Flamboyant Gothic style.

* The Flamboyant Gothic-style Town Hall and its Belfry were designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 1999.

The 16th century porch on the south side is an example of Late Gothic Flamboyant architecture.

In architecture, where the style was long-lasting, local varieties of it are often known as Perpendicular architecture in England, and as Sondergotik in Germany and Central Europe, Flamboyant Gothic in France, and later the Manueline in Portugal, and the Isabelline in Spain.

The cathedral is a mixture of Perpendicular with Flamboyant, the latter being peculiarly barbarous and angular, owing to its being engrafted, not on a pure, but a very early penetrative Gothic … The rest of the architecture among which this curious Flamboyant is set is a Perpendicular with horizontal bars across: and with the most detestable crocketing, utterly vile.

In 1851 he published An Essay on the Origin and Development of Window Tracery in England, which proposed the terms " Flowing " and " Flamboyant " ( the latter term already in use in France, though not with exactly the same meaning, continuing right through the English Perpendicular Period ) instead of Thomas Rickman's " Decorated ", which had been generally adopted since it was first published in 1817.

In the later Flamboyant Gothic style, an " ogee arch ," an arch delineating a void with a pointed head, like S-shaped curves, became prevalent.

The ogee shape is one of the characteristics of the Gothic style of architecture, especially decorative elements in the 14th and 15th century late Gothic styles called Flamboyant in France and Decorated in England.

At one point it was owned by a physician who used the magnificent Flamboyant chapel on the first floor as a dissection room.

Flamboyant hockey commentator Don Cherry used the term ' pinko ' while introducing Toronto's new mayor Rob Ford.

The middle-density suburbs are Eastvale located close to Zimuto Police Camp and Target Kopje located on the southern part of town on a small hill close to Flamboyant Hotel.

`` If you become a Baptist, I will not '', Ann informed her husband, but sweeping her threat aside Adoniram continued to search for an answer to the personal dilemma in which he found himself.

But just when she seemed to have sunk into some depravity of peasanthood she would disappear and come down bathed, brushed, and taking breaths of air, and even with her broken nails her hands would come to rest on a table or a leaf with a thoughtless delicacy, a grace of history, so to speak, and for an instant one saw how ferociously proud she was and adamant on certain questions of personal value.

She thought royal status might come her way when, while she was still in Rome, she met Pulley Bey, a personal procurer to King Farouk of Egypt.

After all, the average American as he lies and waits for the enemy in Korea or as she scans the newspaper in some vain hope of personal contact with the front is unconcerned that his or her plight is the result of a complex of personal, economic and governmental actions far beyond the normal citizen's comprehension and control.

There hadn't been anything really personal in her interest in me.

'' And her own personal songs like `` The Man That Got Away '', and the inevitable `` Over The Rainbow ''.

Her `` Rockabye Your Baby '' was as good as it can be done, and her really personal songs, like `` The Man That Got Away '' were deeply moving.

Instead of her old confidence in the simplest, purest, most moving musical expression, Miss Schwarzkopf is letting herself be tempted by the classic sin of artistic pride -- that subtle vanity that sometimes misleads a great artist into thinking that he or she can somehow better the music by bringing to it something extra, some personal dramatic touch imposed from the outside.

Though her personal contact with Alfred Nobel had been brief, she corresponded with him until his death in 1896, and it is believed that she was a major influence in his decision to include a peace prize among those prizes provided in his will.

The characters in this book in particular are also based on archaeologists Christie knew from her personal experiences on excavations sites.

At the time of the movie's release, however, author J. K. Rowling said that it was her personal favorite from the series so far.

Their loss, however, was compensated by the tender solicitude and care of his paternal grandfather and grandmother, the latter of whom lived to experience in her turn the kindest personal attention from her grandson, who, when he had the means, gave her an asylum in his house at Rome.

When Ibn Habib's soldiers entered the camp, the Berber chieftain ’ s wife Tekfah hid Abd al-Rahman under her personal belongings to help him go unnoticed.

Her journals, which span several decades, provide a deeply explorative insight into her personal life and relationships.

She avoided urban and street scenes as well as the nude figure and, like her fellow female Impressionist Mary Cassatt, focused on domestic life and portraits in which she could use family and personal friends as models.

The only thing we know about her personal life is the name of her husband, Lapidot.

The Journal, decoded and transcribed by Leslie Linder in 1958, does not provide an intimate record of her personal life, but it is an invaluable source for understanding a vibrant part of British society in the late 19th century.

Mary, Queen of Scots | Mary Stuart's personal breviary, which she took with her to the scaffold, is preserved in the National Library of Russia of St. Petersburg

The large contingent furnished by Egypt gave her advice as much weight as her personal influence over Antony ; and it appears that this movement was really resolved upon.

It crawled across her breasts, suffocating the life in her nipples.

Miraculously, Karipo and her women had succeeded in driving a hundred invaders from the isle of Pamasu back to their war canoes, after considerable loss of life on both sides.

I don't suppose a wife should be grateful to her husband for saving her life, but I am.

Keith was on his feet because he didn't care at all about life any more: Penny on her feet, proudly, because she cared too much.

This girl soon drops the bourgeois pyschiatrist who disapproves of her life.

From above one could only occasionally catch a glimpse of life on the floor of this green sea: a neighbor's gingham skirt flashing into sight for an instant on the path beneath her grape-arbor, or the movement of hands above a clothesline and the flutter of garments hung there, half-way down the block.

Bertha, blue-eyed like Mamma, was from the start her mother's daughter, destined for her mother's role in life.

If there was ever a thought in her mind she might devote her life to religion, it was now dispelled.

Meynell once again paid his debts and it was Katie, rather than Thompson, whose life was soon ended, for she died in childbirth in April, 1901, in the first year of her marriage.

Several years of her life have been spent in the homeland, and she had written to friends to alert them of our coming.

We may further grant to those of her ( Poetry's ) defenders who are lovers of poetry and yet not poets, the permission to speak in prose on her behalf: let them show not only that she is pleasant but also useful to States and to human life, and we will listen in a kindly spirit ; ;

They lived in the same house and it didn't seem to be such a hard thing to do, but the sad realities of Lilly's life and the fact that Meltzer didn't love her never satisfied my wishful thinking.

To me it was a game, to her it was the deadly seriousness of life.

childishness compared to her grown-up understanding that life was a punishment for as yet undisclosed sins.

I wanted to grab her by the arm and beg her to wait, to consider, to know for certain because life is so long and marriage is so important.

Since his Christ was to be life size, how was Mary to hold him on her lap without the relationship seeming ungainly??

For the moment there was no woman in his life, and it was this vacuum that had given Claire her opportunity.

it was her life.

Both of them had known the feeling of the small life in her waiting, ready, for the two of them to run up her sails.