A history of French architecture from the death of Mazarin till the death of Louis XV, 1661-1774 (1921)
Blomfield, Reginald Theodore, Sir, 1856-1942 · London : G. Bell and sons, ltd. · leaf 143
struction: tout y est noble et imposant (Cours dArchitecture, iii, 66).Perrault was avenged on his contemporaries, but it took nearly one hundred yearsto do it. Frangois Blondel, Cours dArchitecture, part iii, chaps, x, xi, and xii (2nd ed.1698), written soon after 1671. Blondels criticism is a… … CO d.u QJ < g 3 6 a z 1. TO IACK V. Si] BERNINI AND CLAUDE PERRAULT Si design, considered the Peristyle one of the three or four master-pieces of French architecture, and he considered there was no buildingin France more capable of inspiring le bon goflt de Iarchitecture. Itsmost serious fault,…
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