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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)

Ward, William Henry, 1856-1924 · London, B.T. Batsford · leaf 182

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erpentine lines. The Anglo-Chinese Garden.—Then came the reign of Anglo-mania. English books, English dress and equipages, English horse-racing became the rage in French society, and with them the JardinAnglais. In England, garden design had undergone a pseudo-naturalisticrevolution some fifty… … XHoiO X y O ^ H< o r- 426 RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE IN FRANCE. Chambers had, perhaps ironically, proposed Chinese methods as anantidote to the reign of chaos. His remedy was an intensification ofthe malady. The Chinese method consisted, according to him, inexaggerating natural peculiarities and…

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