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)
prominent churchmenwere distinguished rather for political ability or secular learning than forpiety and spiritual zeal. During the fifteenth and sixteenth centuriesthe French Church produced no prominent saint or theologian, exceptsuch as, after the beginning of the Reformation movement, had… … 32. ClIAPEI. OK THK IIOI.Y SlIKIT: RUK. VaUI.T, the completion of structures already begun—such as the cathedrals ofSens, Senlis, Heauvais, Evreux—and it remained wholly, or almostwholly, (iothic. Even new buildings showed no trace of innovation indesign throughout, and even beyond, the sixteenth…
