. How to judge architecture : a popular guide to the appreciation of buildings. (iiAri:Ai: oi i;(;uui;-\ (Si;i.\i: i;t chski. ki:anci:, PLATE ].II. HALL, NOTTS. ENGLAND. Development of the Renaissance like Rabelais and La Boetie. The nextstep was taken by that very Constable ofMontmorency, who, being then at theheight of his wealth and influence in theState, began the new chateau of Ecouen,after 1540—an early date, but the workwas put into the hands of an uncompro-mising classicist, Jean Bullant. Plate LIIshows a part of this chateau, the flank onthe right hand as one en
. How to judge architecture : a popular guide to the appreciation of buildings. (iiAri:Ai: oi i;(;uui;-\ (Si;i.\i: i;t chski. ki:anci:, PLATE ].II. HALL, NOTTS. ENGLAND. Development of the Renaissance like Rabelais and La Boetie. The nextstep was taken by that very Constable ofMontmorency, who, being then at theheight of his wealth and influence in theState, began the new chateau of Ecouen,after 1540—an early date, but the workwas put into the hands of an uncompro-mising classicist, Jean Bullant. Plate LIIshows a part of this chateau, the flank onthe right hand as one enters the great courtby the chief gateway. Here the classicalorders are more at home, and although thehigh roof, the monumental chimneys, andthe huge and towering dormers are still ofthe French Renaissance proper, with butlittle direct Italianate influence, it is easyto see how everywhere in the mouldings,in the larger details, the classical feeling ofthe architect has had its way. Even hisdormer windows, picturesque, and, in away, mediaeval as they are in design, havepilasters and a Doric frieze, all approxi-mated in their proportion to the
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