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Story · St. Anne's Church
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You're standing at St. Anne's Church, in the Old Town of Vilnius. Take a good look at that façade. What looks like lace carved in stone is actually brick, painted red. The builders used no fewer than thirty-three different kinds of brick to shape all those arches, ridges and spires. It's a textbook example of Flamboyant Gothic and Brick Gothic rolled into one. Notice how the pointed arches are framed by rectangular panels? Everything is perfectly symmetrical, and yet the front seems to be in motion. Lithuanian art historian Vladas Drėma even saw patterns from the Columns of Gediminas echoed in it.
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