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)
ely followed than any other architect of the wholeItalian Renaissance. When, therefore, one considers on the one handthe limitation in quality and range of their sources of inspiration, andon the other the somewhat heavy and uninspired character of con-temporary national architecture, the… … 251. IAKis: St Etiknne \w Mont. IArADK (1610-25). Almost the only rival model to the Church of the (lesii was St Peters,but while St Peters supplied the idea of the dome and little else, thegreater influence of the Gesii is manifest by the universality of itssystem of superposed small orders, its…
