. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . BENVENUTO CELLINI the Florentine, whose autobiography gives so forcible a picture ofthe practice of the decorative arts in Italy and France at tliisperiod, and is so entrancing a revelation of his quarrelsome person-ality, that one willingly adds novelist, braggart, and fighter to his THE RENAISSANCE IN FRANCE 141. laurels as engineer, musician, designer, and sculptor. Either Cellinislife was a romance, or his Life a romance. Its main events are,fortunately, corroborated from other sources, whilstother incidents are so manifest
. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . BENVENUTO CELLINI the Florentine, whose autobiography gives so forcible a picture ofthe practice of the decorative arts in Italy and France at tliisperiod, and is so entrancing a revelation of his quarrelsome person-ality, that one willingly adds novelist, braggart, and fighter to his THE RENAISSANCE IN FRANCE 141. laurels as engineer, musician, designer, and sculptor. Either Cellinislife was a romance, or his Life a romance. Its main events are,fortunately, corroborated from other sources, whilstother incidents are so manifestly of the Munchausenorder of truth that they deceive no the reign of Francis successor HENRI DEUX, the Renaissance was first established in its classicalentirety: his marriage with Catherine de Mediciassisting to fix the Italian concept, whilst Dianaof Poitiers was also a friend of the new arts. ^ Virtually, the mode of Henry ii. lasted until hexri deux chair. musSethe end of the sixteenth century. Probably owing to the domination of the author of the Mas-sacre of St. Bartholomew, the bigoted Queen-Mother, Henri sons, Fran9oi8 ii., Charles ix., and Henri iii., during theirbrief and but nominal reigns were conspicuousexceptions to the interest which the kingsof France, however diversely moulded in otherrespects, have almost invariably displayed forthe a
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