Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, and co. · leaf 346
the most splendid in France,the 2:allerv of Francis I. be-ing especially noted. TheChateau of St. Germain,near Paris (1539, by PierreChambiges), is of a very dif-ferent character. Built largely of brick, with flat balustradedroof and deep buttresses carrying three ranges of arches, itis neither… … FIG. 176.—STAIRCASE TOWER, BLOIS. 314 HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE. attesting the inventiveness of the French genius, express-ing itself in a new-found language, whose formal canons itdisdained. Chief among them is the Chateau of Chambord(Figs. 177, 178)— a Fata Morgana in the midst of a wild, woody…
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