. Art in France. PARISIAN ART UNDER LOUIS XV AND LOUIS XVI. FIG. 631. GRAND THEATRE, BORDEAUX. STAIRCASE, FIRST FLOOR. {Photo. LArchitecle.) trades of terraces, on cornices,even on the bars of iron mythological fountains seemto have come out of the land-scape of some pastoral completed this archi-tecture with wrought ironwork,the most delightful of super-fluities; he hammered out barsand fixed them with a fanciful-ness which, true to the principlesof French taste, hides a gooddeal of logic under its energetic art was a moresuccessful vehicle than sculpturefo
. Art in France. PARISIAN ART UNDER LOUIS XV AND LOUIS XVI. FIG. 631. GRAND THEATRE, BORDEAUX. STAIRCASE, FIRST FLOOR. {Photo. LArchitecle.) trades of terraces, on cornices,even on the bars of iron mythological fountains seemto have come out of the land-scape of some pastoral completed this archi-tecture with wrought ironwork,the most delightful of super-fluities; he hammered out barsand fixed them with a fanciful-ness which, true to the principlesof French taste, hides a gooddeal of logic under its energetic art was a moresuccessful vehicle than sculpturefor the intricate subdeties of theRococo. No style so welladapted to the material of theblacksmith and the worker inmetals had been known since the days of Gothic grilles and each juncture when suppleness and nervous energy were de-siderata, in the days of the Flamboyant and Rococo Styles, metalhas achieved greater triumphs than wood or stone. Lamours iron-work and Gouthieress chased metals are the masterpieces of graceful balcony of hamm
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