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Character of renaissance architecture (1905)

Moore, Charles Herbert, 1840-1930 · New York, London, The Macmillan Company · leaf 240

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teration by the architectLemercier who enlarged the court to about four times the area 1 The lines of this poem which relate to Lescot are quoted by M. Berty in op.cit., pp. 66-68. ^ Regole GeneraU di Architettura di Scbastiano Serlio. XII LESCOT AND DE EORME 197 that Lescot had intended. Thus the… … Fig. 117. — Roman arch, Serlio. Cerceau/ and save for some alterations in the timber roof theexisting fabric agrees with his print. In this design (Fig. 118) there is no survival of the characterof a mediaeval stronghold, though the rectangular pavilions,which break the long facades, and the high…

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