A history of French architecture, from the reign of Charles VIII till the death of Mazarin (1911)
Blomfield, Reginald Theodore, Sir, 1856-1942 · London : G. Bell and sons, ltd. · leaf 74
llowed in the time of Francois I. The same difficulty has attendedthe discrimination of builder-designers in England in the sixteenthand early part of the seventeenth centuries, and the evidence to bedrawn from the Comptes des Batiments du Roi throws valuable lighton this somewhat thorny question.… … B, P< w ►J S3 2 I I. IO 1 At I I. 28 THE MASTER BUILDERS 23 method of procedure there given may be taken as typical, at any ratein regard to royal buildings. In October 1528 1 Francois announces, to his Controller-General ofFinance, that he has decided on certain buildings at Fontainebleau and…
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