. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. Aue St. Vincent, Chalon. St. Peters Church, south of the bridge, is a specimen of uglyRenaissance built just at the beginning of the eighteenth me Renaissance architecture roughly classes itself under r> a- s- I. A Summer Voyage. 217 three heads. 1. The elegant. 2. The cold. 3. The ugly. Thefirst I am never weary of admiring, the second chills and repelsme like a stiff corpse, the third produces very mixed feelings,its ugliness being often made strangely tolerable by qualities ofa merely pictures
. A summer voyage on the river Saône. With a hundred and forty-eight illustrations. Aue St. Vincent, Chalon. St. Peters Church, south of the bridge, is a specimen of uglyRenaissance built just at the beginning of the eighteenth me Renaissance architecture roughly classes itself under r> a- s- I. A Summer Voyage. 217 three heads. 1. The elegant. 2. The cold. 3. The ugly. Thefirst I am never weary of admiring, the second chills and repelsme like a stiff corpse, the third produces very mixed feelings,its ugliness being often made strangely tolerable by qualities ofa merely picturesque order. I should hardly attempt to drawthe elegant Renaissance, it is too beautiful in its delicate accuracy,nor would any artist care to draw the cold Renaissance, it is toodull and unrewarding, but the roifgh and ugly Renaissance issometimes very tempting if you have a box of is the character of St. Pierre at Chalon. The lofty domedchurch is a good subject in its picturesque, irregular Place, withhouses of all heights and of the most various character. In theereatest floods of the Saone, this Place is inundated and thepeople go about, not exactly in gondolas, but in flat-bottomedboats. If there were but gondolas at such times the Place delHotel de Ville would be a little Venice,
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