Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 294
t wouldseem as though the independent Gallicspirit wished to protest against the in-creasing domination of the classic ten-dency by greater extravagance in theuse of scrolls and escutcheons, car-touches, palm-branches, heads, gainesand every device of non-structural, fan-tastic ornament to break up… … Fig. 164a. — LouisXIII PaintedN1EL1.E, ChateauOF Cheverny. A HISTORY OF ORNAMENT to produce an effect of restlessness rather than of repose.This is seen in such examples as the facades of St. Paul-St. Louis and St. Etienne du Mont at Paris, of the Minimes at Tours and Ste.Marie at Nevers; and in…
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