Goodyear, W. H. (William Henry), 1846-1923 · New York : The Macmillan company ltd. · leaf 113
, where the form is the same, it isclear that the facade of St. Etienne du Mont at Paris (Fig.53) has sacrificed all thoughts of a serious relation betweenappearance and construction by the size of its pediments.Were the same shapes limited in size to the older use ascanopy for door or window, the… … Fig. 53.—St. Etienne du Mont. Paris.Seventeenth Century. Decadence of Renaissance Architecture. 103 least imposing and monumental, and much that was com-paratively simple, although in all these cases the mechan-ical quality of the detail carvings in capitals and surface or-naments is to be…
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