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)
or pediments. Very various are theirsummits and pinnacles—candelabra, vases, statues, balls, or miniaturelanterns and domed iempietti, and sometimes they terminate in flatcorniced tops. Structural flying buttresses are likewise rendered inRenaissance detail, and the purely ornamental ones of… … 99. Bkie-Comte-Robert : Parish Church.West Front. 98 RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE IN FRANCE.