Moore, Charles Herbert, 1840-1930 · New York, London, The Macmillan Company · leaf 230
a-tion for the superstructure.The design as a whole hasno reason on structuralgrounds, nor has it any logicof simulated structure. Suchmerit as it has is of a purelyabstract ornamental kind en-tirely extraneous to the build-ing. Apart, however, fromits factitious general char-acter, and its… … Fig. 114. — Part of the Portal ofChenonceaux. 188 ARCHITECTURE OF THE RENAISSANCE chap. Rideau, and of similar character, are Chenonceaux and LaRochefoucauld. Of Chenonceaux the portal (Fig. 114) isworthy of notice as an instance of a different manifestationof the survival of Flamboyant ideas in…
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