The architecture of the Renaissance in France; a history of the evolution of the arts of building, decoration and garden design under classical influence from 1495 to 1830 (1911)
andarabesques. Corbels became volutes or caryatids. The so-calledhouse of Diane de Poitiers at Rouen (Fig. 78) is a good example. Public Buildings.—Many towns rebuilt their town halls at thistime. At Lorris the Hotel de Ville is a modest house in patternedbrick with stone dressings; at Niort a… … Andre Sourdeau (1534-43)- AtBeaugency theHotel de Ville is avery charniing littleedifice (1526), in-cluding two shops(Fig. 79), attributed,like that of Orleans,to Charles Viart.If this be correct,he had learned bythis time to elimi-nate the Gothicelements which stillappeared in hisearlier work. The…
