Castles and chateaux of old Touraine and the Loire country (1906)
Miltoun, Francis · Boston, L. C. Page · leaf 146
of anyage, and its outlines are varied and pleasingenough to satisfy the most critical; if one par-dons the little pepper-boxes on the north andsouth towers, and perforce one has to pardonthem when he recalls the magnifi.cence of thegeneral disposition and sky-line of this mar-vellously imposing… … !:S o Chambord 105 French Renaissance — with the inspiration forits erection in 1526. A prodigious amount of sculpture by JeanCousin, Pierre Bontemps, Jean Goujon, andGermain Pilon was interpolated above thedoorways and windows, in the framing thereof,and above the great fireplaces. Inside andout,…
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