The arts in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (1886)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London : J.S. Virtue & Co. · leaf 378
es yielded neither in richness nor in majesty to the works of the precedingperiod. Under Louis XII. rose the Chateau de Blols, and the Hotel de laCour des Comptes, Paris, a splendid building destroyed by fire in theeighteenth century. Under Francis I., Chambord (Fig. 277), Fontainebleau,Madrid… … Fig. 278.— Porte de Hal, Brussels. (Fourteenth Century.) mansions; the old Louvre, the palace of kings, the cradle of monarchy, wasregenerated under the care of Pierre Lescot; the Hotel de Yille, Paris, stillbears witness to the varied talent of Domenico da Cortona, who, as M.Yaudoyer said of him,…
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