Fonda, Jane (Seymour) (sh) and Flamboyant style (sh)

Fonda, Jane (Seymour) (sh)

born Dec. 21, 1937, New York, N.Y., U.S.

U.S. Film actress, political activist, and Fitness enthusiast.

The daughter of actor Henry Fonda, she made her Film debut in Tall Story (1960), which began a career that took dizzying turns. After playing comic roles in such films as Cat Ballou (1965) and Barefoot in the Park (1967), she appeared as a sex kitten in husband Roger Vadim's (married 1965-73) futuristic Barbarella (1968). She then plunged into leftist political activity, marrying the activist Tom Hayden (married 1973-89) and loudly condemning the Vietnam War, and made socially conscious films including They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969), Klute (1971, Academy Award), and Coming Home (1978, Academy Award). She later marketed a series of hugely popular Exercise books and videotapes. After marrying Ted Turner in 1991 (divorced 2001), she retired from the screen.

Flamboyant style (sh)

Phase of late Gothic architecture in 15th-century France and Spain.

It evolved out of the Rayonnant style's increasing emphasis on decoration. Its most conspicuous feature is the dominance in stone window tracery of a flamelike S-shaped curve. Wall surface was reduced to the minimum to allow an almost continuous window expanse. Structural logic was obscured by covering buildings with elaborate tracery. Attractive French examples include Notre-Dame d'epine near Chalons-sur-Marne, Saint-Maclou in Rouen (с 1500-14), and the northern spire of Chartres Cathedral. Spanish Flamboyant architects developed their own intricate forms of vaulting with curvilinear patterns; the Capilla del Condestable in Burgos Cathedral (1482-94) and Segovia Cathedral (begun 1525) provide examples. Flamboyant Gothic, which became increasingly ornate, gave way in France to Renaissance forms in the 16th century.

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