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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 25

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f pavilions and revived the giant order. Mansarts taste in ornament also advanced. The leather motives,the grotesque figures, the bossy treatment of moulding and ornament,proper to Louis XIII. work, still characterise the finely designed butclumsily carved stonework of his church of Ste Marie,… … f 263. Hotel de la Vrilliere, by F. Mansart, on the site of theBank of France (1635-38). From a Print by J. Marot. and an occasional weightiness of touch, the decoration at Maisonsmight belong to the time of Henry II. Again, if a series of successivebuildings be compared, such as the churches of…

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