3) Fill in the gaps with the words from the following list: appearance,...
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3) Fill in the gaps with the words from the following list:
appearance, being, both, buttresses, divisions, emphasized, gable, mouldings, often, Perpendicular, pinnacles, pointed, ribs, ,shafts, spires, ,spreading, storeys, tracery, treatment, unifying
Verticality
The ………1……arch lends itself to a suggestion of height. This …..2…………is characteristically further enhanced by ……3………the architectural features and the decoration of the building.
On the exterior, the verticality is ……4……..in a major way by the towers and ……5……and in a lesser way by strongly projecting vertical supporting………6…, by narrow half-columns called attached shafts which ……7….pass through several …8…….of the building, by long narrow windows, vertical ……9…..around doors and figurative sculptures which emphasizes the verticality and are often attenuated. The roofline ……10….ends, buttresses and other parts of the building are often terminated by small……11…….., Milan Cathedral …12……..an extreme example in the use of this form of decoration.
In the interior of the building attached ……13….. often sweep unbroken from floor to ceiling and meet the ……14….. of the vault, like a tall tree ……15……..into branches. The verticals are generally repeated in the ……16……………of the windows and wall surfaces. In many Gothic churches particularly in France, and in the ………17………….period of English Gothic architecture, the treatment of vertical elements in gallery and window ……18………creates a strongly …19……….feature that counteracts the horizontal ……20…………of the interior structure.
Vocabulary:
to attentuate –zmenšit, oslabit
to counteract –působit proti
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