Old Touraine; the life and history of the famous chateâux (1900)
Cook, Theodore Andrea, Sir, 1867-1928 · New York, J. Pott & co. · leaf 264
s he, must be taken for whatit is; for an attempt in which the architect hassought to reconcile the methods of two oppositeprinciples, to unite in one building the fortifiedcastle of the Middle Ages and the pleasure-palace of the sixteenth century. Granted that the attemptwas an absurd one, it must… … (okambocci 209 morals, as in architecture, this particular phase inthe civilisation of the time has already becomeevident even in the course of these small wanderingsin a single province, and if only this transitionperiod is realised in all its meaning, with all the monstrous and inform…
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