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)
tical sideof his profession and on ancientmonuments : and during his life inFrance he published further instalments of his viagnuin opus. Themoment of his arrival was that atwhich French opinion was awakingto the consciousness that the archi-tecture, which had been in fashionfor a generation as… … 125 feet Chateau of Ancy-le-Franc : Plan.From a Dra^ving by Du Cerceau. 124 RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE IN FRANCE. the authority on the subject. Even Philibert de IOrme, more prone topoint out his own merits than other peoples, gives him a generoustribute. It is he, he writes, who first gave the…
