. Art in France. -ROOD-SCREEN OF SAINT ETIENNEDf MONT, PARIS. ART IN FRANCE. riiMB OF FRANCIS KV HKllI \\ CATHEDRAL. of the Renaissance (). Jean Bullant showedeven greater submissive-ness to antique forms, andwas the first to make useof the colossal order;at Ecouen, instead of re-ducing the colonnade tothe dimensions of thestoreys, he enlarged it tothe scale of the fagade;and instead of superposingsmall columns, he erectedlofty columns which risefrom the soil to the summit. Philibert Delorme was also anenthusiastic admirer of antiquity; he had studied its treatises andmeasured i
. Art in France. -ROOD-SCREEN OF SAINT ETIENNEDf MONT, PARIS. ART IN FRANCE. riiMB OF FRANCIS KV HKllI \\ CATHEDRAL. of the Renaissance (). Jean Bullant showedeven greater submissive-ness to antique forms, andwas the first to make useof the colossal order;at Ecouen, instead of re-ducing the colonnade tothe dimensions of thestoreys, he enlarged it tothe scale of the fagade;and instead of superposingsmall columns, he erectedlofty columns which risefrom the soil to the summit. Philibert Delorme was also anenthusiastic admirer of antiquity; he had studied its treatises andmeasured its monuments. In the Chateau dAnet, the Tuileries, andFontainebleau, he not only derived certain ingenious decorativeforms from antique ruins, but actually re-captured that harmony ofproportion which was the soul of Greek architecture. Yet hisconceptions are not merely those of a designer; they are essentiallythose of a constructor; in his book on architecture, if he is muchpre-occupied with the meas-urements of columns andentablatures, he loves to ex-ercise his skill on
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