A history of French architecture from the death of Mazarin till the death of Louis XV, 1661-1774 . press of an architects mind on his can do it in the case of men of strong individuality: De IOrme,Frangois Mansart, A. J. Gabriel, Inigo Jones, Wren, Peruzzi or MichaelAngelo; but these are the exceptions. The internal evidence availablefor critical appreciation is a good deal more obscure in architecture I refer to fragments of buildings, not to monuments complete in themselves, thoughthese also lose half their value divorced from the surroundings for which they weredesigned, a point on
A history of French architecture from the death of Mazarin till the death of Louis XV, 1661-1774 . press of an architects mind on his can do it in the case of men of strong individuality: De IOrme,Frangois Mansart, A. J. Gabriel, Inigo Jones, Wren, Peruzzi or MichaelAngelo; but these are the exceptions. The internal evidence availablefor critical appreciation is a good deal more obscure in architecture I refer to fragments of buildings, not to monuments complete in themselves, thoughthese also lose half their value divorced from the surroundings for which they weredesigned, a point on which Quatremere de Quincy very properly insisted when lie brokeup Le Noirs Museum after the Revolution. xxii A HISTORY OF FRENCH ARCHITECTURE than it is in the sister arts, and writers have in consequence too oftenmerely passed on what other people have said. It is the more necessary,therefore, to collect and sift carefully whatever evidence there is andform ones own conclusions, even if they do not always tally with theaccepted legends. Reginald Blomfield. New Court, Temple,Nove7nber, BIBLIOGRAPHY Academies. Proccs-Vcrbaux de IAcademie Royale dArchitecture, 1671-1793,publics pour la Societe de Ihistoire de Iart Francais, par M. HenryLemonnier. Vols, i, ii, iii, 1911-13.—Proces-Verbaux de TAcad^mie Royalede Peinturc et de Sculpture, 1648-1793, publics pour le Societe de IartFrancais par M. Anatole de Montaiglon. Vols, i-x, 1875-92. Anquier, Philippe. Juget, Les Grandes Artistes. Architecture Franqoise ou recueil des plans elevations, coupes et profilsdes Eglises, palais, hotels et Maisons particulieres de Paris, et des chateauxet maisons de campagne ou de plaisance des environs et de plusieurs autresendroits de France, batis nouvellement par les plus habiles architectes, etleves et mesures exactement sur les lieux a Paris chez Jean Mariette, rueS. Jacques colonnes dHercule, 1727. 4 vols., fol. This work anticipatedBlondels Arch. Francaise by twenty-five years, a
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