The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 419
rs of the heart. And as he continued to beswayed by the same woman who ruled the paternalaffections, so too was he stimulated and moved by 396 THE RENAISSANCE. the same architectural interests which had lent gloryand refinement to his fathers reign. Palaces begun under Francis I were completedunder… … Fig. 163.— House of Francis I. ing it in the middle of the next, while tall mullioncdwindows deliberately cut their way through the cor-nice of the building. But perhaps the most distinc-tive feature of the time (aside from a greater attentionto classical precedent) was the universal evidence…
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