The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 417
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 withRenaissance… … FlG. 162.—Chateau de Chambord. horizontal, great care being taken to preserve voidsover voids and solids over solids. Carving accentu-ated the stories, and when massed about openingswas thrown into relief by large smooth wall spaces.Columns were rarer than in Italy, though circularand…
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