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    a wimperg is a gable-like crowning over portals and windows and is also called an ornamental gable. Outside of immediate architecture, the wimperg is...
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    Gable (section Wimperg)
    cathedral architecture. Wimpergs often had crockets or other decorative elements in the Gothic style. The intention behind the wimperg was the perception of...
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    de Nicolas Flamel; formerly in French: le Grand Pignon, lit. 'the Great Wimperg') is a house located at 51 rue de Montmorency in the 3rd arrondissement...
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    while the latter term indicates the normal rectangular shape merlons (wimperg). Other shapes include: three-pointed, quatrefoil, shielded, flower-like...
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    arches, while the upper sections are in the Gothic style, with pointed wimpergs and a rich figurative program. Like the cathedral and the campanile the...
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    decorate (for example) the sloping edges of spires, finials, pinnacles, and wimpergs. When crockets decorate the capitals of columns, these are called crocket...
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    is surrounded by columns and crowned by a wimperg, the gable spire of which is formed as a finial. The wimperg is decorated with a relief ornament, in the...
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    traditionally hung in the arcades of the nave during Advent. Original wimperg of the façade in the Musée de l'Œuvre Notre-Dame Original statues of the...
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    intervals to decorate the sloping edges of spires, finials, pinnacles, and wimpergs. 13th century Fleuron illustrated by Viollet-le-Duc Crockets on the spire...
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    little columns made of red Verona marble; each portal is surmounted by a wimperg and decorated with a marble lunette hosting a bas-relief: the central lunette...
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    Paris. Under the tracery rose, there is a Wimperg portal on the north exterior. The tracery rose, the Wimperg portal and the choir polygon – here especially...
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    completed by biforas and triforas and various groups of statues including the wimperg group. Only a few traces of the interior remain in the Brera Art Gallery...
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    northern porch from the beginning of the 15th century has a three-part Wimperg gable in the Brunsberg style. The large five-stepped west portal has fillets...
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    façades. The two east-facing dormers are no longer crowned with their wimperg. However, their lintels are adorned with an ogee arch. At its mid-point...
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    a phoenix, a pelican and an eagle. Additional decoration consisted of wimperg and corbels decorated with foliage and long-haired, crowned female heads...
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    sculptural forms became common as pictorial ornamentation, recalling the wimpergs, pinnacles, rose windows, gables, friezes, and trefoils of Sainte-Chapelle...
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    star (asteroid) vaults. The portal was also originally Romanesque – the wimperg on the round arch had a niche with the figure of the patron saint. The...
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    on the south side of St. Marien. The opulent decorations and the high wimperg signify the Brautportal's status as the main entrance to the Marienkirche...
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    and has three-light traceried windows on all sides, crowned by soaring wimpergs, as well as pinnacles at the tower corners. Both towers are finished with...
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    portal in each three pillars which mark the vestment of the Portal. The Wimperg above the Portal is decorated with three flowers inside and the top is...
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    Stånga Church). The sculptures depict the Resurrection of Jesus (in the wimperg), and (on the capitals) scenes from the early life of Christ and Mary....
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    Marstallplatz. Above the doorway a deesis sculpted in relief is framed by a gothic wimperg, with statues of Saint Peter and Saint Paul on either side. Inside, the...
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    Above, there are friezes with a single slope, surmounted by triangular wimpergs with blind tracery and symbols. The Lily refers to Virgin Mary, and the...
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    Margraviate style is evident. The windows were widened, the original Gothic Wimperg at the main portal was removed, the Margravial coat of arms took the place...
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    the north side, there is a late Gothic Church tabernacle with crowning wimperg. Opposite this is a triangular lavabo. There are three grave slabs in the...
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    decoration with a succession of pinnacles as it were climbing the sides of the wimperg is only known from Strasbourg Cathedral and Cologne Cathedral; it has been...
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    Saint Michael wielding a club and carrying a shield, sitting astride the wimperg. Underneath, the capitals are profusely sculpted with scenes from the apocalypse...
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    of the pillars, the outermost posts of the portal, the tympanum and the wimperg are all decorated with sculptures. The tympanum contains a depiction of...
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    part in the building process. It is also indicated by the European Gothic wimpergs, fan traceries, lancet windows and other architectural features typical...
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    profiled frames, the closures of which are slightly cantilevered. Triangular wimpergs with stylized crockets and crosses are present in the crowning. At the...
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