The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1875)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 474
de Gaillon, a long succession of edifices, which in manycases yielded neither in richness nor in majesty to the works of the pre-ceding period. Under Louis XII. rose the Chateau de Blois, and theHotel de la Cour des Comptes, Paris, a splendid building destroyed by firein the eighteenth century.… … fig. 326.—Chateau de Chambord, with its Ancient Moat. (Seventeenth Ccnturj-.) Azai-le-Rideau ; and with the manor-house of Ango, near Dieppe, all sunip- 3 a 410 ARCHITECTURE. tuous, lordly mansions ; tlie old Louvre, the palace of kings, the cradle ofmonarchy, was regenerated under the care of…
Art, Medieval · Art, Renaissance
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