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

Blomfield, Reginald Theodore

9780332055725: A History of French Architecture, From the Reign of Charles VIII Till the Death of Mazarin, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)

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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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