The story of architecture: an outline of the styles in all countries (1896)
Mathews, Charles Thompson, 1863- · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 422
gards comfort. The exteriors were simple, but the interior deco-rations were very elegant, infinite care being takenin regard to the proportioning of detail to construc-tive features, while the ceilings, panelled with ovalframes, as in the Pitti palace, at Florence, affordedmen like Le Brun… … FiG. 164.—Versailles. bert, where the imaginations of Bernini and Dr. Per-rault were allowed to run riot. But when the wits of the day used to laugh atPerrault and remark that architecture must beindeed sick when it has to be confided to the care ofa doctor, they were not so far wrong. For with…
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