Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, 1834-1894 · Boston, Roberts brothers · leaf 192
ment of these spaces. One of the greatest difficulties about the union of thetwo palaces was that they were neither parallel nor atright angles to each other. The degree of inclination issuch that if a line drawn along the front of the Tuileries,and another along the west front of the Louvre,… … QUADRANGLE OF THE LOUVRE, WITH THE STATUE OF FRANCIS I.,PLACED THERE IN 1855, AND SINCE REMOVED. The Louvre. no than forty-seven different projects were submitted tothe Government. That of Percier and Fontaine wasaccepted, but never carried out. Those architects in-tended to hide the defect by…
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