Hourticq, Louis, 1875-1944 · New York : Scribner · leaf 336
e bas-reliefsbetween the strongly marked mouldings of the structure (Fig. 650).Fontaine built the Chapelle Expiatoire over the graves of Louis .\VIand Marie-Antoinette for Louis XVIIl. This cloister, formed of achain of tombs, is a significant symbol of the Restoration. Bothwere monuments of… … FIG. 654.—BOSIO. THE NYMPH SALMACIS. (The Lou\Te, Paris.) The architects of the Empirewere more busily employed indesigning furniture than m build-ing. It was they who, followingin the wake of the archasologicaipainters, applied the austererigidity of the Pompeian styleto furniture. Even when…
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