Hourticq, Louis, 1875-1944 · New York : Scribner · leaf 335
Vendome Column suffered as much fromrevolution as the statue of Louis XIV it had supplanted. The Empiremanaged to complete one church in the form of an antique Templeof Glory, but the Restoration intervened, and dedicated this pasticcioof the Maison Carree at Nimes to Mary Magdalen (Fig. 649). The… … FIG. 653.—CHINARD.MME. r£CAMIER. (Museum of Lyons.) austerity; the Tuscan order was not alwaysconsidered severe enough. Artists turnedback from Greek art to that of Egypt,with its tombs, its massive walls, its lotus(lowers and its sphinxes. When the arch-itects archaeological zeal was rather…
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