20 Facts About Flamboyant

Ribs in Flamboyant tracery are recognizable by their flowing forms, which are influenced by the earlier curvilinear tracery of the Second Gothic styles.

In most regions of Europe, Late Gothic styles like Flamboyant replaced the earlier Rayonnant style and other early variations.

Term "Flamboyant" was first used by the French artist Eustache-Hyacinthe Langlois in 1843, and then by the English historian Edward Augustus Freeman in 1851.

The emergence of the Flamboyant style was a gradual process.

Term "Flamboyant" was coined in the early 19th century, primarily to refer to French monuments with flame-like, curvilinear tracery that were constructed between circa 1380 and 1515.

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The Flamboyant style appeared in France during the Hundred Years' War against England .

Features of the Flamboyant style are richly articulated facades, very high, lavishly decorated porches, towers, and spires.

Flamboyant details are found in the chapel, the doorways, windows, tower, and roof-line.

Variations of Flamboyant, influenced by France but with their own characteristics, began to appear in other parts of continental Europe.

Flamboyant had a particularly strong influence in Low Countries, which was then part of the Spanish Netherlands and was a part of the Catholic diocese of Cologne.

Flamboyant perfected a method by which the drawings for large constructions allowed ordering virtually all natural stone elements from quarries on later Belgian territory, then at the destination needing merely their cementing in place.

Additional examples of the Flamboyant style include the cloister of the Convent of Sant Domenec in the Kingdom of Valencia.

Flamboyant had little influence in England, where the Perpendicular style prevailed.

Flamboyant architecture was not common in the British Isles but examples are numerous.

In Scotland, Flamboyant detailing was employed in window tracery of the northern side of the nave at Melrose Abbey, and for the west window that completed the construction of Brechin Cathedral.

Somewhat later, further Flamboyant work was done on the western bays of Brechin Cathedral.

Flamboyant rose windows are prominent features of the transept of Sens Cathedral and the transept of Beauvais Cathedral, one of the few parts of that Cathedral still standing.

Flamboyant windows were often composed of two arched windows, over which was a pointed, oval design divided by curving lines called soufflets and mouchettes.

Flamboyant rose window and facade, south transept Sens Cathedral .

Term "Flamboyant" typically refers to church facades and to some secular buildings such as the Palais de Justice in Rouen.