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)
ould differ incharacter from secu-lar, and it was asinevitable that thedesign of churchesshould be influencedin the eighteenthcentury by that ofthe drawing-room asby that of the bathor the law - courtunder the RomanEmpire, or byHumanistic ideas inthe sixteenth. Vetthere wtre foundwriters who, from… … ;8i. THE STYLE OF LOUIS XV. 399 was precisely in church design that the reaction against rococo licencefirst asserted itself. AfoNASTic Architkcture, cVc.—One result of the spiritual deadnessof the cigluccnlh century was the decay of the Religious r)rders. Whiletheir membershi[) steadily declined,…
