... archesandopenings the prevailingpointedform(which,curiouslyenough,survivedlonger in Italy)wasreplacedwithgrowingfrequencyby the circularandelliptical,orquasi-ellipticalwiththreeorfivecentres,orbyflatlintels, the 10. CASTLE OF CHATEAUDUN:STAIRNEWEL.2. THE CHATEAU OF TANLAY. THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE RENAISSANCE IN FRANCE INTRODUCTIONDURING the fifteenthandsixteenthcenturies the peoples of Europe,ledbyItaly,passedfromtheirmediaeval ... atthistime,EnglishandDutchinfluence,ifnotverypowerful,contributedsomethingto the puristicreaction. The metaphorcontained in the word Renaissance isveryapplicableto the architecture of France, re-born of the marriage of GothicandItalianartat the close of the ... pagestotrace the interactions of thesetwinforces in the architecturalworld,andtodescribe the stylestowhichtheygavebirth, the narrativebegins in the openingchapterat the momentwhen the dynasticwars of the latefifteenthcenturybrought France intodirect...