How to know architecture : the human elements in the evolution of styles (1914)
Wallis, Frank Edwin, 1862-1929 · New York : Harper and Brothers · leaf 223
from being- broadly na- FIG. 8l—CHIMNEY AT BLOIS, FRANCE . , (francis i.) tional.n type, becomes specific and official, sothat now for the first time we find it classified by thenames of the successive rulers. The history of the race is a sort of fever chart of its moraltemperature. Period after… … THE RENAISSANCE IN FRANCE comes in with a new ideal to start another climb. Side byside with the line that marks this rise and fall is the line ofarchitectural expression. You may trace either line to anypoint, and be sure that the other will be close at hand.We therefore return again to the axiom…
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