A Text-Book of the History of Architecture: Seventh Edition, revisedHamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster)
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A Text-Book of the History of Architecture: Seventh Edition, revised
Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster)
Architecture -- History
+MONUMENTS.+ (Mainly supplementary to text. Ch. = château; P. =
palace; C. = cathedral; Chu. = church; H. = hôtel; T.H. = town
hall.)
TRANSITION: Blois, E. wing, 1499; Ch. Meillant; Ch. Chaumont; T.H.
Amboise, 1502-05.
FRANCIS I.: Ch. Nantouillet, 1517-25; Ch. Blois, W. wing
(afterward demolished) and N. wing, 1520-30; H. Lallemant,
Bourges, 1520; Ch. Villers-Cotterets, 1520-59; P. of Archbishop,
Sens, 1521-35; P. Fontainebleau (Cour Ovale, Cour d’Adieux,
Gallery Francis I., 1527-34; Peristyle, Chapel St. Saturnin,
1540-47, by _Gilles le Breton_; Cour du Cheval Blanc, 1527-31, by
_P. Chambiges_); H. Bernuy, Toulouse, 1528-39; P. Granvelle,
Besançon, 1532-40; T.H. Niort, T.H. Loches, 1532-43: H. de Ligeris
(Carnavalet), Paris, 1544, by _P. Lescot_; churches of Gisors,
nave and façade, 1530; La Dalbade, Toulouse, portal, 1530; St.
Symphorien Tours, 1531; Chu. Tillières, 1534-46.
ADVANCED RENAISSANCE: Fontaine des Innocents, Paris, 1547-50, by
_P. Lescot_ and _J. Goujon_; tomb Francis I., at St. Denis, 1555,
by _Ph. de l’Orme_; H. Catelan, Toulouse, 1555; tomb Henry II., at
St. Denis, 1560; portal S. Michel, Dijon, 1564; Ch. Sully, 1567;
T.H. Arras, 1573; P. Fontainebleau (Cour du Cheval Blanc
remodelled, 1564-66, by _P. Girard_; Cour de la Fontaine, same
date); T.H. Besançon, 1582; Ch. Charleval, 1585, by, _J. B. du
Cerceau_.
STYLE OF HENRY IV.: P. Fontainebleau (Galerie des Cerfs, Chapel of
the Trinity, Baptistery, etc.); P. Tuileries (Pav. de Flore, by
_du Cerceau_, 1590-1610; long gallery continued); Hôtel Vogüé, at
Dijon, 1607; Place Dauphine, Paris, 1608; P. de Justice, Paris,
Great Hall, by _S. de Brosse_, 1618; H. Sully, Paris, 1624-39;
P. Royal, Paris, by _J. Lemercier_, for Cardinal Richelieu,
1627-39; P. Louvre doubled in size, by the same; P. Tuileries (N.
wing, and Pav. Marsan, long gallery completed); H. Lambert, Paris;
T.H. Reims, 1627; Ch. Blois, W. wing for Gaston d’Orléans, by _F.
Mansart_, 1635; façade St. Étienne du Mont, Paris, 1610; of St.
Gervais, Paris, 1616-21, by _S. de Brosse_.
STYLE OF LOUIS XIV.: T.H. Lyons, 1646; P. Louvre, E. colonnade and
court completed, 1660-70; Tuileries altered by Le Vau, 1664;
observatory at Paris, 1667-72; arch of St. Denis, Paris, 1672, by
_Blondel_; Arch of St. Martin, 1674, by _Bullet_; Banque de
France, H. de Luyne, H. Soubise, all in Paris; Ch. Chantilly; Ch.
de Tanlay; P. St. Cloud; Place des Victoires, 1685; Chu. St.
Sulpice, Paris, by _Le Vau_ (façade, 1755); Chu. St. Roch, Paris,
1653, by _Lemercier_ and _de Cotte_; Notre Dame des Victoires,
Paris, 1656, by _Le Muet_ and _Bruant_.
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