. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. y had suffered much from time and the elements, has, at the joint expense of the town and government, undergone a complete renovation. This has, stone by stone, been efficted with great care and artistic skill by i\I. Goyers. The new work l)eing executed in very soft stone, which, however, hardens with exposure to the air, it has been saturated with oil. Tn form, though not in features, totally different from the hotels de ville we have just left, i
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. y had suffered much from time and the elements, has, at the joint expense of the town and government, undergone a complete renovation. This has, stone by stone, been efficted with great care and artistic skill by i\I. Goyers. The new work l)eing executed in very soft stone, which, however, hardens with exposure to the air, it has been saturated with oil. Tn form, though not in features, totally different from the hotels de ville we have just left, is (hat at Ghent, never compleed, but exhibiting, in what was executed of the design, a choice example of the last days of the flamboyant period. It was begun iu 1481 ; in it are all those indications of change in the sotites and curves, as well as in the linesof the foliage and tracery,ihateventually proved its downfall; and the style isnowoutc f character with the habits of the age, from which alone a real st\ lo of architecture can ever spring. The subdivision of the building as to height is into two stories as to effect, thougli in 4 T 2. 1380 GLOSSAEY. reality there are more; and the transoms, which abound in the apertures, seem to roignin accordance with the horizontal arrangement of lines which was so soon to supercedethe flaming curves that had prevailed fur nearly half a century. The elegant turret ortribune at the corner, with the part adjoining, in the richest flamboyant Goihic, is byEustace PoUe^t, 1527-60; the other fa9ade, 1600-20, has columns of three diflferentOrders superposed. The most celebrated of town halls in Europe was that of Amsterdam, erected duringthe first half of the 17th century by Van Campen. The design is given in DurandsTarullele, and it also forms the subject of a volume, in folio, published in Holland, in1661-64. The town halls at Antwerp and at Maestricht may be also referred to, butthese have now been surpassed by modern structures ; amongst
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