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 212
ssinreplied in an indignant letter to Desnoyers that the criticisms weremerely the result of malice and ignorance, and that as for Lemercier,everybody could see for themselves that his work was bad, full of The roofs of the buildings connecting the end with the centre paviHon are shownas Mansard… … 7, -J. [11. ill ]-.^CK 1. yo JACQUES LEMERCIER 91 faults and monstrosities, such as the heaviness which seemed tumbHngdown, the extreme coldness of the composition, the melancholy, dryand poverty-stricken aspect of all the parts, the combination of impos-sible details, and bad proportion, in short…
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