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)
greater is principally due to two causes. In the first jilace it isvirtually a temple design, but the excessive proportion of the w^idth to thebreadth, viz., about 2 : 3 as against i : 2 or 2 : 5 in most ancient temples,emphasised by a great expanse of hipped roof, gives it an unpleasantlysprawling… … 460. Paris : The Bourse from South-West, bases, which were already in position. To criticise the peristyle, on theground that it makes two storeys appear one, is beside the mark. Justas, in the case of a church, the architect has the choice of making eitherthe lofty one-storeyed nave, or else the…
