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The Sainte-Chapelle is the most perfect embodiment of the Gothic Rayonnant style.
The Parisian Jewel for the Jerusalem Crown Ina Caro 2011
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Blanche of Castile selected Thomas de Cormont, the architect who in 1240 had just completed work on the Rayonnant choir at Amiens, to design a chapel to house the relics.
The Parisian Jewel for the Jerusalem Crown Ina Caro 2011
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Strong sunlight shone in through the high Rayonnant-style windows, illuminating the grand wooden desk identical to the one which the Waterwalker had sat behind when he was Mayor of Makkathran.
The Dreaming Void Hamilton, Peter F. 2007
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Got so hooked on Gothic architecture—flying buttresses and Rayonnant design—she went on for her graduate degree at Stanford.
The Dead House Linda Fairstein 2001
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The upper part of the façade of Reims (1380-1428) belongs to the transition from the Rayonnant to the Flamboyant.
A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised 1890
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The style of this period is sometimes designated as +Rayonnant+, from the characteristic wheel tracery of the rose-windows, and the prevalence of circular forms in the lateral arched windows, of the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries.
A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised 1890
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