The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 416
ionate enthusiasm for the subject RENAISSANCE ENTHUSIASM. 393 swept over Maine, Normandy, Brittany, Picardy,and Isle-de-France, and rolled its way along thevalley of the Loire ; the loopholes of fortresses ex-panded into windows to let in the light of the Renais-sance, and the chateaux of… … Fig. 161.—Chateau of Azai-le-Rideau. own, and the Gothic remained the medium for thearchitectural translation of religious thought. 394 THE RENAISSANCE. Not but what certain Renaissance churches ex-isted, as St.-Michaels, at Dijon, and St.-Eustache, atParis; but these were really Gothic churches…
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