An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth (1888)
Gwilt, Joseph, 1784-1863, Papworth, Wyatt Angelicus Van Sandau, 1822-1894 · London Longmans, Green · leaf 174
e did so France has no reason to lament, since itgave Perrault the opportunity of ornamenting the capital with one of the most splendid menu -nients of the art which Europe can boast. To Perrault is the credit due of having givenan impulse to French architecture it has never lost, and of having… … 1,54 IIISTOHY OF ARCHITECTURE. Book i proportions are so ex(iuisite, tliat tlic eye c.innot rest on the couiiled cohinins and the archof the i)rinci|ial gate rising into the story of the colonnade. The original profession ofPerrault was that of medicine, which, however, he only exercised for the…
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