Pear stick
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High Gothic collegiate church Saint-Martin from the 13th century in Nouans-les-Fontaines with vaulted ribs made from pear wood elements
In architecture, a rod-shaped component with a pear-like cross-section is referred to as a pear rod . This shape had developed from the rounded profiles of the early Gothic in the style epoch of the High Gothic as a sharp-edged decorative profile with covings . In the late Gothic period, variously ridged profiles emerged, but also emphatically simple shapes. Pear rod elements were used for vault ribs , arches, services on pillars, soffits of windows, portal walls and archivolts .
literature
- Meyer's Encyclopedic Lexicon . Bibliographical Institute, Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich 1973, Volume 4, p. 262.
- Wilfried Koch: Architectural style - sacred buildings. Special edition for Bassermann Verlag; Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 1998, ISBN 3-8094-5007-3 , p. 158.