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)
aninsufficient base. There is little doubt that, with the same advantagesof size and position, and with the same restraint of decoration, thedome of the Val-de-Grace would, owing to its avoidance of these defects,be even more greatly admired than that of the Invalides. Interior.—\\\ the interior it… … 334. Second Church of the Invalides, by J. II. .Mansart. arches, and necessitate awkwardly shaped pendenlives (Fig. 336). Thedetached order of columns carrying nothing, which is placed in frontof the piers, perhaps to disguise their excess of solidity, is so obviouslyuseless, that it merely…
