. Exposition universelle, 1900 : the chefs-d'uvre. ons, where the Empire has no official pavilion, is thevery curious and interesting one of Finland. The architecture of the palaces of the Esplanade des Invalides hasbeen one of the most fruitful sources of discussion furnished by the wholeExposition. The theory and programme adopted by their designers andbuilders was consistent and intelligent,—to indicate, by the ensembleand the detail, that it was a decoration, and not a building, that they wereerecting, and to make this decorative structure as rich and gay and Exposition Universelle as poss
. Exposition universelle, 1900 : the chefs-d'uvre. ons, where the Empire has no official pavilion, is thevery curious and interesting one of Finland. The architecture of the palaces of the Esplanade des Invalides hasbeen one of the most fruitful sources of discussion furnished by the wholeExposition. The theory and programme adopted by their designers andbuilders was consistent and intelligent,—to indicate, by the ensembleand the detail, that it was a decoration, and not a building, that they wereerecting, and to make this decorative structure as rich and gay and Exposition Universelle as possible, its cheerfulness and vivacityand ingenuity of detail are indeed wonderful,—never was there such awealth of crockets and finials and cartouches and caryatides and capitalsand wreaths and garlands and interrupted pediments and allegories andsymbols and long and large mural paintings. Almost equally abundantis the wealth of disparaging adjectives which has been heaped upon it, ROYAL PAVILION OF ITALY FROM THE PONT DES INVALIDESPHOTOGRAVURE. ARCHI-
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