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)
us or effective, but it resembles it in its covered galleries, itscolumnar entrance hall, which here is circular, and the arrangement of theauditorium, which here is elliptical wath the long axis parallel to the stage.Of the theatre at Amiens (1778-80) by Jacques Rousseau (1733-1801) 454… … 433. Arabesque by Cauvet. CHURCH ARCHITECTURE. St Sulpice : Servandony and Meissonnier.—The reaction toclassical purism was first manifested, as noted above, in Servandonys design for the westfront of St Sulpice,and it is a most re-markable fact thattwo designs so dia-metrically opposedin their…
