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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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