How to know architecture : the human elements in the evolution of styles (1914)
Wallis, Frank Edwin, 1862-1929 · New York : Harper and Brothers · leaf 246
line strength shown in the parallel development innorthern Italy and in Rome. Manners seem to have been more important thanmorals in the time of Louis XIV. The social refine-ments were carried to a point of extreme cultivation andcovered the undercurrent of loose living that permeatedthe court and… … FIG. Q2—DOORWAY AT VERSAILLES (LOUIS XV.) HOW TO KNOW ARCHITECTURE restraint coloring the warm-blooded treatment of decora-tive forms. There is much power expressed in this subtlereserve, this decorous observance of the rules, and itshows that neither vagaries and instability of kings, norall the…
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