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)
ther cases greaterheight was obtainedby placing the orderson a pedestal, as atAncy-le-Franc (Fig.123). The use of agiant order onlysolved the difficultyas regards the lowerstoreys spanned byit. Similar difficultiesarising from the useof blind arches weremet by similar de-vices, as at the… … SCAL&OF L SCALE OF L 136 RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE IN FRANCE. primarily as a solu-tion of the abovedifficulties, but witha view to obtaininga more dignifiedscale by avoiding thenecessity of an orderto each storey : it isthus used at Mon-ceaux-en-Brie (Fig.146) and La TourdAigues (Fig. 132).The…
