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Identifier: dictionaryofarch02stur (find matches)
Title: A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909
Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architects
Publisher: New York : The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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s longer. UnderFrancis I., whose reign began in I.5I5, a moreclassical influence was soon to prevail, and yetthe buildings of his reign, even in the immediateneiglibourhood of the royal residence, whether atParis, at Blois, or at Fontainebleau, are as faras possible from showing a purely classical oreven a purely Italian sjjirit. The northernwing of the chateau of Blois, and the Avhole ofthe great royal hunting scat at Chanibord, thechateau of Chenonceau, the chateau of Saint-Germain-eu-Laye, and large parts of the chateauof Fontainebleau jireserve this style for usThe chateau of Ecouen (Seine-et-Oise) is enoughin itself to show the more formal side of thebuilding of this epoch. The admirable churchof S. Eustache at Paris in its first conceptionbelongs to this same epoch. This is almost theoidy liuilding in which a fair attempt was madeto unite non-Gothic details with a Gothic struc-ture in any ecclesiastical building : and whilethe opinion is frequently expressed that this104 PLATE V
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FRANCE, ARCHITECTURE OF. PLATE II Albi (Iarn) ; the cathedral church of S. Cfcile,from the northeast. The roof is vaulted with ribsin the true Gothic manner, but the buttresses whiclitake up the tlirust. of tlie vaults are the divisions be- tween chapels, and the external walls are kept highand of uniform surface, apparently with the idea ofmaking the church serve as a fortification. Thewalls are entirely of brick.

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