. Art in France. UK(.\K. LE PALAIS lllE champs-£lys£es, paris. 384 NATURALISM. LE PETIT PALAIS IN THECHAMPS-ELYSEES, PARIS. resuscitated Byzantinemosaic. But moderndress has none of thesplendour of Louis XIVcostume, and the austeresimplicity of black coatsforms a strange contrastto this more than royalsetting. Nenots Sorbonne mustbe cited as an exampleof the skill with whichintricate problems havebeen solved ; the architecthad to build a Temple of Science, vast and complicated as thetravail of modern thought, upon a difficult site in a restricted space,and at the sam
. Art in France. UK(.\K. LE PALAIS lllE champs-£lys£es, paris. 384 NATURALISM. LE PETIT PALAIS IN THECHAMPS-ELYSEES, PARIS. resuscitated Byzantinemosaic. But moderndress has none of thesplendour of Louis XIVcostume, and the austeresimplicity of black coatsforms a strange contrastto this more than royalsetting. Nenots Sorbonne mustbe cited as an exampleof the skill with whichintricate problems havebeen solved ; the architecthad to build a Temple of Science, vast and complicated as thetravail of modern thought, upon a difficult site in a restricted space,and at the same time, to respect certain aspects of Richelieus ancientmonument. While utilitarian exigencies become more imperious everyday in libraries, museums, universities, and countless other publicbuildings, our architects cannot bring themselves to sacrifice nobleclassical fagades. Nevertheless, a growing audacity in the application of iron hascreated a new type of building. A metallic architecture has grownup side by side with the traditional stone architecture. Periodicalexhibitions have done m
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