Old Touraine; the life and history of the famous chateâux (1900)
Cook, Theodore Andrea, Sir, 1867-1928 · New York, J. Pott & co. · leaf 178
found to have the samearrangement as the balustrades on the exterior ofthe staircase, and reversed, in exactly the same zvayas the spiral. It is tempting to complete thehypothesis by imagining such a shell as this to havebeen in the possession of the architect to whom thefirst plans of the work… … lold 141 of the stairs are not the least astounding part of thewhole building; a man, too, of extraordinary imagi-nation, and with a sense of harmonious proportionrarely equalled in the world. Scarcely any one ofthat time save Leonardo da Vinci possessed agenius at once so universal and so…
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