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)
s inJapanese art, with hovering insects and flights of little birds. Thesemotives alternate with others due to Jean Jacques Rousseaus influence,and his apotheosis of rustic life and sensibility, such as bee-hives, wheat-sheaves, or bundles of vegetables, rakes, hoes, wheel barrows, or hay-makers… … 421. FONTAINEBLEAU : DOOR IN MARIE ANTOINETTES BOUDOIR. have at this period the peculiarity of being closely pleated throughouttheir length. They are largely used also in frames; sometimes a singleribbon is coiled spirally round a staff; sometimes two are intertwinedround a ribbed torus. In…
