The story of art throughout the ages; an illustrated record (1904)
Reinach, Salomon, 1858-1932, Simmonds, Florence · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 146
arniers GrandOpera House (Fig. 217). This ten-dency still persists, modified bya rather more severe taste. Thelast important buildings erectedin Paris, the Grand Palais andthe Petit Palais (Fig. 218), areRenaissance buildings, in which thedecorative elements are borrowed fromantiquity, but which… … FIG. 216.—COURTYARD OF THE ECOLE DES BEAUX ARTS, PARIS. art of the schools. Engineering feats,like the Tour Eiffel and the Palais desMachines, with their soaring vertical 127 THE STORY OF ART THROUGHOUT THE AGES lines, the marked predominance ofempty spaces over solid surfaces, andthe lightness of…
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