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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)

Ward, William Henry, 1856-1924 · London, B.T. Batsford · leaf 181

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columns. Ball-RooiM at Fontainebleau.—The Bail-Room or Gallery ofHenry H. (J on plan, fig. 61) was in an unfinished state at the endof Francis I.s reign. Its completion had been the subject of muchdiscussion, and Serlio complains bitterly that he was not consultedin the matter, though nominally in… … sures, covered by elliptical barrel vaults, almost double the floorarea (Fig. 137). That it was originally the intention of Le Breton,or whoever designed it, to cover the central space with a vault isevident from the elliptical tympana on the end walls, the corbelson the piers and the great…

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