Flamboyant (style level)

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Late Gothic flamboyant style in the Abbey Church of La Trinité in Vendôme , France

As Flamboyant (French for "flaming".) The final stage of the style is late Gothic in France , Belgium ( Flanders ) and England called; it is characterized by the elongation of certain forms of the tracery that are reminiscent of flames.

At the same time of the Flamboyant style there was the special Gothic in Germany , the Manueline style in Portugal and the Isabelline style in Spain.

Examples

Examples of the flamboyant Gothic are:

• a partial facade of the town hall of the Flemish city of Ghent ,
• the church La Trinité in Vendôme in France with its facade, the eyelash above the portal and the tracery in the flamboyant style,
• the portal of the cathedral of Senlis ,
• the town hall and the portal of the Holy Blood Basilica of Bruges ,
• the town hall of Leuven in Belgium,
• the choir of the monastery church on Mont-Saint-Michel ,
• the west facade of Saint-Étienne de Toul .
• the St. Anne's Church in Vilnius in Lithuania

literature

• Georg Germann: Flamboyant. In: Real Lexicon on German Art History . Vol. 9, 1992, col. 638-641.