French Chateaux And Gardens In The Sixteenth Century

Author : William Henry Ward
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781528219839
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (198 download)

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Download or read book French Chateaux and Gardens in the Xvith Century written by William Henry Ward and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-28 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from French Chateaux and Gardens in the Xvith Century: A Series of Reproductions of Contemporary Drawings Hitherto Unpublished by Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau; Selected and Described With an Account of the Artist and His Works The drawings largely consist of the originals for the now very rare and costly engraved work published by du Cerceau in 1576 and 1579 under the title Les plus excellents bastiments de France, but they are beyond comparison finer and richer in detail, as well as much larger in scale than the old engravings; in fact from the latter it is not easy to judge/ of the beautiful and scholarly draughtsmanship of the pen and ink work. Several of them also vary considerably from the published version, and thus throw much new light upon the history of the buildings illustrated. The illustrations of the present volume present a fairly complete picture of architectural evolution in France during the sixteenth century, and comprise some of the finest specimens of each phase. The hybrid style of Louis XII with its strange medley of Gothic and Renaissance elements is represented by Amboise and Gaillon the purer style of Francis I with its mediaval plan and structure clothed in Lombard Renaissance forms by Blois and Chambord; the matured Renaissance of Henry II with its increased classicality of treatment, where the native element is reduced to a few characteristic features, by the Louvre and Ancy-le - Franc the decadent taste and license of Henry lll's time, combined with promise of better things in logical and spacious planning, by the Tuileries, Verneuil and Charleval. About the Publisher 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.