. How to judge architecture : a popular guide to the appreciation of buildings. gn were in in the reign of Henry III, for in-stance, when the States General were heldin one of its great halls, namely, the one ofwhich a small part is seen on the left inPlate L. The student, as he approaches either ofthese interesting buildings, has to remem-ber that the st^^le of the earlier one, PlateL, was compelled to make room for thenewer style, as that in its turn was soonout of fashion and was replaced by themore severely classical buildings which arementioned below. The evolution was notperfect, the gro
. How to judge architecture : a popular guide to the appreciation of buildings. gn were in in the reign of Henry III, for in-stance, when the States General were heldin one of its great halls, namely, the one ofwhich a small part is seen on the left inPlate L. The student, as he approaches either ofthese interesting buildings, has to remem-ber that the st^^le of the earlier one, PlateL, was compelled to make room for thenewer style, as that in its turn was soonout of fashion and was replaced by themore severely classical buildings which arementioned below. The evolution was notperfect, the growth was not merely naturaland inevitable, the style did not ripen,growing slowly from point to point of de-velopment, from simpler to richer, from lessto greater pitch of complication. It wasthe constant influx of fresh appeals fromItaly and from Italianized travellers, some-times nobles of the great court, like theConstable of Montmorency, sometimesprinces of the church, like the two car-dinals of Amboise, and sometimes scholarsonly, humble students of Greek and Latin,[148]. (•IIAIIIAI AT BLOIS (LOIR ET ClIEKl, FRANCE, AYING OF FRANCOIS I. LI
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