A History of French Architecture, From the Reign of Charles VIII Till the Death of Mazarin, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Blomfield, Reginald Theodore

9781330312469: A History of French Architecture, From the Reign of Charles VIII Till the Death of Mazarin, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from A History of French Architecture, From the Reign of Charles VIII Till the Death of Mazarin, Vol. 2

But the Gothic tradition in Church-building died hard in France as in England. Mediaeval plans and principles of construction, the nave, aisles, and transepts, the choir and its arches, the vaulting, the buttress, and the ﬂying buttress remained in use after the details of Gothic architecture had been abandoned; and nowhere is the shallow ness of the early Renaissance in France more clearly shown than in this attempt to clothe the traditional facts of mediaeval construction in an alien dress. No attempt was made, as yet, to deal with architecture according to its logical intention, the utmost ambition of these men was to plaster a more or less correct version of some classical detail on to the unoffending surface of their building. Not only had they lost the spirit of mediaeval architecture, but they had even forgotten the structural purpose of the Gothic features that they did retain, as may be seen from buildings such as Beauvais, Where the ﬂying buttresses scarcely stand up by themselves, much less support the vaulting of the choir. Moreover, they must have built badly The church of Notre Dame at Niort, begun in 1491 and completed in 1535, simply and suddenly collapsed on 1sth November 1910.

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Excerpt from A History of French Architecture, From the Reign of Charles VIII Till the Death of Mazarin, Vol. 2

But the Gothic tradition in Church-building died hard in France as in England. Mediaeval plans and principles of construction, the nave, aisles, and transepts, the choir and its arches, the vaulting, the buttress, and the flying buttress remained in use after the details of Gothic architecture had been abandoned; and nowhere is the shallow ness of the early Renaissance in France more clearly shown than in this attempt to clothe the traditional facts of mediaeval construction in an alien dress. No attempt was made, as yet, to deal with architecture according to its logical intention, the utmost ambition of these men was to plaster a more or less correct version of some classical detail on to the unoffending surface of their building. Not only had they lost the spirit of mediaeval architecture, but they had even forgotten the structural purpose of the Gothic features that they did retain, as may be seen from buildings such as Beauvais, Where the flying buttresses scarcely stand up by themselves, much less support the vaulting of the choir. Moreover, they must have built badly The church of Notre Dame at Niort, begun in 1491 and completed in 1535, simply and suddenly collapsed on 1sth November 1910.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from A History of French Architecture, From the Reign of Charles VIII Till the Death of Mazarin, Vol. 2

State of the city - The Pont Neuf and its Place - Place Royale - Place Dauphine - Porte et Place de France - Additions to Fontainebleau - Galerie des Cerfs - St. Germain-en-Laye, terraces, and staircase - Important work done for Henri IV in development of French architecture - His anticipation of later ideas.; Marie de M�dicis; Salomon de Brosse - Jean du Cerceau - Marie de M�dicis and the arts in France - Decorative painting - The change of direction introduced by Rubens - The Luxembourg and Salomon de Brosse - Not based on the Pitti Palace - Its plan, defects of its design - Later history of the building - St. Gervais, Paris - The Protestant Temple at Charenton - The Grand Salle of the Palais de Justice - Colommiers en Brie - The Parliament House at Rennes - Jean Androuet de Cerceau - The Hotels de Sully and De Mayenne - H�tel de Bretonvillers - H�tel S�guier - Buildings by unknown architects - at Toulouse - Dijon and the south-east side of France - H�tel de Vogu� - Porte de la Citadelle, Nancy - Town hall, La Rochelle - The brick and stone architecture of the reign of Henri IV - Period still one of transition.; Jacques Lemercier; Born at Pontoise - His employment at the Louvre - The Church of the Oratory in Paris - The Catholic Renaissance in France compared with the Laudian Revival in England - Lemercier and the Sorbonne - Church of St. Roche - The official type of the French seventeenth-century church - Churches at Richelieu, at Vannes, at Blois, Notre Dame at Caen, St. Pierre Saumur, Eglise Toussaint at Rennes, Les Ardeliers Saumur, St. Nicholas Compi�gne, La Trinit� Fontainebleau - Lemercier compared with Wren - Less imaginative, less power of organic control - This quality lost sight of in modern architecture - Advance made in work of Lemercier and his contemporaries. Lemercier (continued); Lemercier as a domestic architect - Poussin's unfavourable opinion - Hotel de Richelieu - Richelieu's wealth - Ch�teau de Richelieu, laying out of its general design - The Ch�teau - The rebuilding of the town of Richelieu, its importance in the history of town-planning - Brouage and its fortifications - Lemercier and the Louvre - The Pavillon de l'Horloge - Its failure as a design - The Grand Gallery - Poussin's quarrel with Lemercier - The Town Hall at Lyons - Lemercier succeeds Mansart at the Val de Gr�ce - His death - Lemercier as an architect. Pierre le Muet; Brick and stone, and the provincial architecture of the early part of the seventeenth century - H�tel de Chalons-Luxembourg

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