The arts in the middle ages, and at the period of the renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London, Bickers and son · leaf 498
under the reign of Charles VIII., after his expedition into Italy, began,with the Chateau de Gaillon, a long succession of edifices, which in manycases yielded neither in richness nor in majesty to the works of the pre-ceding period. Under Louis XII. rose the Chateau de Blois, and theHotel de la… … 4io ARCHITECTURE. tuous, lordly mansions; the old Louvre, the palace of kings, the cradle ofmonarchy, was regenerated under the care of Peter Lescot; the Hotel deVille, Paris, still bears witness to the varied talent of Dominique Cortona,who, as M. Vaudoyer said of him, justly understood that, in…
Art, Medieval · Art, Renaissance
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