A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 95
of heavy wall pierced withsmall lights, is, without closely resembling anyEnglish moninnent, akin to the style of thetransitional abbeys of Yorkshire. On the otherhand, the tracery, both early and late, and thetreatment of the mouldings and similar details,are absolutely French. This church,… … FRANCE, ARCHITECTURE OF. PLATE IV Versailles (Seine et Oise) ; chapel nf tlie R(iyalChateau. This buildiii!, was fiiiislieil alxmt 1710.after the death uf its designer, .Jules Hardnuln Man- sart, who had been for ten years the superintendentof l)uildinf;s for the kint;. The exterior…
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