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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.
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 16th century porch on the south side is an example of Late Gothic Flamboyant architecture.
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.
Peñuelas is known as " La Capital del Güiro " ( The Güiro Capital ) and " El Valle de los Flamboyanes " ( The Valley of the Flamboyant Trees ).
The provincial flower is the Yellow Flamboyant ( Peltophorum pterocarpum ).
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.
Haiphong is also called " The City of the Red Flamboyant ", because there are a lot of flamboyant trees planted in the city.
In many tropical parts of the world it is grown as an ornamental tree and in English it is given the name Royal Poinciana or Flamboyant.
It is much loved in the Caribbean ; for example, many Dominican & Puerto Rican paintings feature Flamboyant Trees, it can also be found in The Bahamas as well.
The town of Peñuelas, Puerto Rico, located about 12 miles west of Ponce, is nicknamed " El Valle de los Flamboyanes " (" The Valley of the Poinciana Trees "), as many Flamboyant trees are found along the surrounding Río Guyanes, Río Macana, and Río Tallaboa Rivers.
This Flamboyant Gothic tower is all that remains of the former 16th century Church of Saint-Jacques-de-la-Boucherie (" Saint James of the butchery ") which was leveled shortly after the French Revolution.
Provincial flower is the Yellow Flamboyant ( Peltophorum pterocarpum ).
The magnificent octagonal Chapel of the Condestable is of Flamboyant Gothic style, filled with traceries, knights and angels and heraldry.
Its sober outward appearance is in stark contrast with the Flamboyant Gothic style of the church.

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At one point it was owned by a physician who used the magnificent Flamboyant chapel on the first floor as a dissection room.
He created his own independent label, Flamboyant Entertainment, in 1998 where he released one of his best known singles " Ebonics " ( 1998 ).
Among the only standing buildings after the 1944 bombings was the Notre-Dame church, built in Flamboyant Gothic style from the 13th to the 15th centuries to replace the former castle's chapel ; its roof and facade were destroyed, as well as one of its two towers and the top of the other one.
This western tower, one of the best examples of Flamboyant Gothic in Spain, was finished by architect Gil de Hontañón, who added to the structure an openwork spire in a modern Renaissance style.

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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.
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.
Unlike the other architects of the French Flamboyant Gothic and Renaissance, Pierre Lescot was not from a line of masons, with practical experience, but the son of a seigneur.
Overview from the north ( left to right ): Condastable Chapel, the Octogonal tower and the two western Flamboyant spire s
This architect, who was probably from Catalonian descent, introduced the Flamboyant Gothic style.
The transition ( in France ) from Rayonnant to Flamboyant Gothic was gradual and evolutionary in form, marked primarily by a shift towards new tracery patterns based on S-shaped curves ( these curves resemble flickering flames, from which the new style got its name ).

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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.

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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.

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Flamboyant Gothic equestrian Louis above the main door of the Château de Blois

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File: Cathedrale Sens 051. jpg | France, Sens Cathedral, transept, showing Flamboyant window incorporated into a large composition.
After the mid-14th century, Rayonnant gradually evolved into the Late Gothic, Flamboyant style, though as usual with such arbitrary stylistic labels, the point of transition is not clearly defined.

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

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Tours Cathedral: 15th century Flamboyant Gothic west front with Renaissance pinnacles, completed 1547.
Flamboyant in her personal life and in roles she pursues, Collins continues to act in theatre, film and television in a career that has spanned more than 60 years.
Doorways surmounted by Flamboyant mouldings are very common in both ecclesiastical and domestic architecture in France.
* The Flamboyant Gothic-style Town Hall and its Belfry were designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 1999.
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.
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.
Flamboyant hockey commentator Don Cherry used the term ' pinko ' while introducing Toronto's new mayor Rob Ford.

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His commissions included The Triumphal Arch, a vast work printed from 192 separate blocks, the symbolism of which is partly informed by Pirckheimer's translation of Horapollo's Hieroglyphica.
The astylar design is by Jean Chalgrin ( 1739 – 1811 ), in the Neoclassical version of ancient Roman architecture ( see, for example, the triumphal Arch of Titus ).
Admiralty Arch is linked to the Old Admiralty Building by a bridge and is part of the ceremonial route from Trafalgar Square to Buckingham Palace.
Some much older arches approximate catenaries, an example of which is the Arch of Taq-i Kisra in Ctesiphon.
Arch of Taq-i Kisra in Ctesiphon as seen today is roughly but not exactly a catenary.
The Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, United States is sometimes said to be an ( inverted ) catenary, but this is incorrect.
While a catenary is the ideal shape for a freestanding arch of constant thickness, the Gateway Arch is narrower near the top.
Delicate Arch is a tall freestanding natural arch located in Arches National Park near Moab, Utah.
( The story that the names of Delicate Arch and Landscape Arch were inadvertently exchanged due to a signage mixup by the National Park Service is false.
Delicate Arch is formed of Entrada Sandstone.
Delicate Arch is located at the end of a moderately strenuous, hiking trail from the parking area at Wolfe Ranch.
Taking thirty to forty-five minutes each way, the round trip is slightly more than long and the Arch is completely hidden from view on most of this trail.
It is possible that a previous climber had top-roped the Arch leaving the rope scars. keturah
* 315 – The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum at Rome to commemorate Constantine I's victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge.
* 1968 – Gateway Arch Saint Louis Gateway Arch is dedicated.
By 2000, most large-scale ( Mach-like ) efforts had ended, although OpenStep used an adapted Mach kernel called XNU, which is now used in the OS known as Darwin, which is the open source part of Mac OS X .. As of 2012, the Mach-based GNU Hurd is also functional and its inclusion in testing versions of Arch Linux and Debian in progress.
* 1965 – Construction on the St. Louis Arch is completed.

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