How to know architecture : the human elements in the evolution of styles (1914)
Wallis, Frank Edwin, 1862-1929 · New York : Harper and Brothers · leaf 230
he classic they did not seem to have discoveredthe inspiration of the original Greek work. They showneither the exquisite fineness and aristocracy of line of 206 THE RENAISSANCE IN FRANCE the Greek moldings nor the splendid nervous vigor ofthe thirteenth-century Gothic, and their work,… … FIG. 86—CHATEAU OF AZAY LE RIDEAU, FRANCE turned and highly ornate post or column of three-fourthsprojection, the capital of which was partly incorporatedwith that of the pilasters. The simple volutes, or scrolls,of the old Greek caps become child figures, flowers, orfanciful animal forms, united…
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