Essai sur l'architecture ogivale en Belgique : mémoire couronné par l'Académie de Bruxelles, en réponse à la question, vers quel temps l'architecture ogivale, appelée improprement gothique, a-t-elle fait son apparition en Belgique? ...
Schayes, a Belgian scholar, published this 1840 Brussels study of Gothic architecture in Belgium, a prize-winning essay written for the Brussels Academy. Its plates are engraved architectural details: window tracery, rose windows, vaulting ribs, pinnacles, capitals and arches, drawn in flat outline as reference for builders and scholars. A designer could take the repeating geometric tracery and pointed-arch vocabulary as ornament, and the ruined-abbey vignette as a mood piece.
