WINDOW SHUTTER FROM HAARLEM
ZWOLLE, OVERIJSSEL
It is impossible to consider here in detail the numerous vicissitudes through which the development of the gable passed during the many years that Gothic and Renaissance motives were acting together as guiding influences. Roughly and briefly, mediæval character was observed in respect to construction and general management of masses—evident by the stepped and curved gables—with a marked tendency to Classic feeling in the handling of details. Work was carried out wholly in brick, or in brick relieved by stone. Among the large number of different outlines that are in evidence, those based on the original stepped form show predominantly. But the spirit of the times is discernible in the culminating pediments, mouldings, and stone decorations. Four typical gables, all sketched in North Holland, are illustrated (pages [106] and [109]). A good example of shaping, achieved by the use of oppositive curves, is that from Arnhem (page [108]), and the stonework of the copings extends to the strapwork ornament.
KAMPEN, OVERIJSSEL (DATED 1626)
MARSSUM, FRIESLAND
