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)
ater markunder Henry IV., but the leadingarchitects of the day were in manycases Protestants, and as the resultof the counter-Reformation therewas also a Catholic Puritanism,affecting both morals and art. SCALE O:*! 1 1 1 METREO ,,,, ^ ■ r . ^ 1 J 10 5 Q 10 20 i he desire for practical unadorned… … THK STVLES OF HKXRV IV. WD T.OUIS XIII. 213 French architectural evolution, and was especially strong on thethreshold of the Age of Reason : the conception of architecture as arationalistic expression of the uses and construction of a buildingwithout any such ideal element as that supplied by the…
