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)
a process of selec-tion and generalisation. A new ideal, both intellectually and artisticallyinferior, now began to replace the old, aiming at the accurate reproduc-tion of particular monuments or of as large portions of them as couldby any possible means be made to accord with modern… … 443. Decorativk Composition by G. P. Cauvet.
