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)
ions it must be judged that shechose wisely—the path in which she was to tread during the comingcenturies. This was in some degree the case in all domains, but inliterature and language, sculpture, decorative art and architecture thecrisis was especially momentous, and the standards then fixed… … CpRlNTMl^NORDER5 .1.1 I 1* I—t^-i ki_i__i 3 ■ ■ ■ ■ r ■ *} ~ 129. ORLEANS: SO-CALI.KD HOUSE OF DU CERCEAU. A/t-(7s//rf(^ and Draivti l>v E. M. CvrcH. THE STYLE OF HENRY II. 133 some three hundred years. So completely did France come intoher definitive manner in architecture at this time that…