Paris . g grandeur of its own,though brimming with faults from an architectural point ofview. Henri Martin, who calls it the poetical church ofS. Eustache, considers it the last breath of the religiousarchitecture of the Middle Ages. Begun in 1532, it wascompleted as we now see it (except the principal portal-altered since, and still incomplete), by the architect David,in 1642. La renaissance avait effacee les derni^res traces du vieil artnational, , . , On voulait appliquer les fornries de rarchitectuie 5. BUST AC HE 121 romaine antique, que Ion connaissait raal, au systeme de constructiondes
Paris . g grandeur of its own,though brimming with faults from an architectural point ofview. Henri Martin, who calls it the poetical church ofS. Eustache, considers it the last breath of the religiousarchitecture of the Middle Ages. Begun in 1532, it wascompleted as we now see it (except the principal portal-altered since, and still incomplete), by the architect David,in 1642. La renaissance avait effacee les derni^res traces du vieil artnational, , . , On voulait appliquer les fornries de rarchitectuie 5. BUST AC HE 121 romaine antique, que Ion connaissait raal, au systeme de constructiondes eglises ogivales, que Ton meprisait sans les cpmprendre. Cest souscette inspiration ind&ise que fut commenc^e et achevee la grandeeglise de Saint-Eustache, monument mal con9u, nial construit, amasconfus de debris empruntes de tous cot^s, sans liaison et sans harmonie ;sorte de squelette gothique revetu de haillons remains cousus ensemblecomme les pieces dun habit darlequin.—Viollet-le-Duc, i. S. EUSTACHE The richly-decorated renaissance portals are surmountedby gothic rose-windows, divided by balustrades, and, at thesummit of the south gable, a stags head with a crucifix betweenits horns, in memory of the miraculous animal by which thesaint was converted when hunting. Classical pilasters dividethe windows, and decorate the flying buttresses, and a verygraceful classical campanile of the XVII. c. surmounts theLady Chapel. With all its faults, the vast and lofty interior will prob- 122 PARIS ably strike the ordinary visitor with admiration for itsstately magnificence. He may notice :— ifh Chapel. Gourlier: Marriage of the Virgin—a ;,th Chapel. Magimel: Ecce Homo—a Statues by Debay; frescoes by Signal. The windows of the choir and apse areof 1631, and bear, constantlyrepeated, the name of their artist, Soulignac, unknown elsewhere, 4iA Chapel of Choir. Restored frescoes of XVII. c. ?)th (Terminal) Chapel. The statue of the Virgin, by Piga
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