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)
picture, a relief, a carved or paintedarabesque, or else they are more elaborately subdivided with a circular,elliptical, or octagonal panel in the centre. The doorways (Fig. 280)are surmounted by a cartouche, trophy or other ornamental feature ofmore or less pyramidal form. The decoration of the… … 282. I)ksi(;n for CiiiMNEY-iiECF, BY J. Le 1autre, WITH Alternative Treatments. and 282). In an alternative and less lofty type, already exemplifiedunder Louis XIII., the surround of tlie fire opening is immediatelysurmounted by a pediment, attic or pedestal, the whole feature beingabout a third of…
