How to know architecture : the human elements in the evolution of styles (1914)
Wallis, Frank Edwin, 1862-1929 · New York : Harper and Brothers · leaf 228
was then understood as the classic, underthe influence of Franciss encouragement of the art, thebuilding changed materially. On the latter part are thepilasters, with the Italian panels of relief, foliage and fig-ures delicately designed, and suggesting somewhat themural decorations of Pompeii or… … HOW TO KNOW ARCHITECTURE tive of the subperiod of Francis I. Now, too, the keen-ness of the Gothic molding began to dull to the gentlercurves of the classic. An odd reversion to the Roman-esque is found at Blois in the series of small arches withblocks supporting the birth of the arches. Here, as…
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