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)
bad taste in literature,threatened to he completely triumphant. But classical studies, whichhad at no time been altogether abandoned, became increasinglystrenuous, and reasserted their influence under the regency of Anneof Austria, more especially in the purification of detail and decoration. In… … 209. ENTRANCE PAVILION OF THE LUXEMBOURG PALACE. PARIS. Tin: STYLES OF HENRY lY. AM) LOUIS XI11. 200 and brilliance but lost in elasticity and colour ; while in prose theClassical Age is unsurpassed, its poetry, apart from the perfection ofform, shines rather in the qualities which it shares with…
