How to know architecture : the human elements in the evolution of styles (1914)
Wallis, Frank Edwin, 1862-1929 · New York : Harper and Brothers · leaf 258
4). The original Louvre was built during the thirteenthcentury under Philip Augustus. Its architecture wasMilitary Gothic, for it was, in fact, a fortress and prison,with many round towers and tiny windows and large andundecorated wall surfaces. Some improvements and em-bellishments were added by… … FIG. 94—THE LOUVRE OF PHILIP AUGUSTUS HOW TO KNOW ARCHITECTURE to take up his kingly residence in Paris, he found thedismal palace quite unsuited to the requirements of en-tertaining other monarchs in royal splendor, and its archi-tecture quite out of fashion. He planned the reconstruc-tion of the…
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