Beyond architecture
Beyond architecture is a 1918 Boston study by art historian Arthur Kingsley Porter, published by Marshall Jones Company and aimed at readers of architectural history. Its photographs show French Gothic cathedral sculpture and structure: a deeply recessed portal with tympanum and jamb figures, a carved roundel, flying buttresses seen from the roof, and a west front with rose window and pointed arches. A designer could draw on the layered arch mouldings, repeated pointed-arch rhythms and the contrast of dense carving against plain masonry.
