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)
narrow courts of the width of thepalace to east and west, each divided into two by a central gallery. Thegigantic mass was to be approached from the west through an equallygigantic forecourt, of which the Grande Galerie and the Tuileries formedpart. It is not surprising that dissatisfaction was… … TIIK STNLK OI LOT IS XIV. 305 incorrect i)ropoitions of llic i)arts one to the other, and so forlli. Suchexperiments stand or fall, not by their degree of concordance withacademic rules, but by their success in producing the desired effect.Hut the defects of the plan, which failed to give the…
