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Title: Easy steps in architecture and architectural drawing ..
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Hodgson, Frederick Thomas, 1836- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Architecture Architectural drawing
Publisher: Chicago, Ill., Printed by F. J. Drake & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ianstyle. There is, properly speaking, no transition style,as in Italy; but the Renaissance style was at once ac-cepted as a complete and developed one, and adoptedwith the principles which prevailed in the land of itsbirth. It is only in France, where it was introducedsomev/hat earler than elsewhere, that many buildingsexhibit a free treatment Avitli reminiscences of the Ro-manesque style. The alterations and modifications which the Renais-sance style underwent in Italy were carefully copied inthe countries in which it prevailed. It was, moreover,precisely at the epoch of its greatest deterioration thatthis style was most extensively employed in non-Italiancountries. No characteristic national features and no local pointsof difference are therefore to be sought for in the build-ings of the various countries, except in those subtleshades of variety which owe their origin to the higher orlower gesthetie development and artistic status of thesecountries. 296 EASY LESSONS IN ARCHITECTURE
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EASY LESSONS IN ARCHITECTURE 297 181. The artistic influence of Italy came into opera-tion in France sooner than in other European countries,for as early as the fifteenth century the Renaissancestyle was introduced there by Italian architects, as, forinstance, by Fra Giocondo, who was summoned thitherby Louis XII. But at that epoch the Flamboyant stylewas still in its vigor, and the buildings then erected couldnot extricate themselves from its influence. The eon-sequence was that a blending of the two styles tempo-rarily prevailed, as, for instance, in the Chateau de Gail-Ion, which was built between the years 1502 and 1510,part of the facade of which is preserved in the court ofthe Ecole des Beaux-arts at Paris, as well as in theChateau de Blois, which Louis XII. caused to be built,and which has lately been restored by Duban. It wasin these country residences of the nobility, especially onthe banks of the Loire, that this architectural activitywas displayed during the earlier period

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