Hourticq, Louis, 1875-1944 · New York : Scribner · leaf 186
a beautiful sculpturedstructure, surrounded by fineallegorical figures; for thesinister pleurants no longerattend Louis XII, Francis Iand Henry II. The tombof Francis 1, constructed byPhilibert Dclorme (Fig.347), is a triumphal arch,and the base, sculptured by Pierre Bontemps, records the exploits… … 336. THE CHAPEL OF THE CHATEAU DAMBOISE. {Plwlo. Neurdein.) lament the dead, but to recall hisvirtues and his glory. The idea isas pagan as the architecture, and asthe divine bodies of the figures. Inspite of the sculptured corpses that liebeneath the arcades, these tombs areno expression of the…
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