[...]... AVENUE PREFACE the title of these volumes the words " Architecture of the IN Renaissance" all are intended to be understood as embracing thpse styles, whether of building or decoration, which are ultimately based on Classical Architecture, from the re-introduction of classical forms at the Renaissance to the revival of Gothic in the nineteenth century, and the word "France, " a geographical term of more varied... example under Francis I The training of young architects in Italy, and especially at Rome at that period the first school of architecture in Europe consisted not only in visiting, measuring, and sketching ancient and modern buildings, but also in studying and copying the designs of the great masters, and in making compositions in which the The practice of Italian travel results of their studies were embodied... Guarini and Bernini The last, but by no means the least important, of the agencies for direction INTRODUCTION xxii France was that of direct oral and spreading Renaissance principles in instruction Among Italian architects who taught in France literary were Fra Giocondo in the fifteenth, and Serlio in the sixteenth century The former was the first editor of Vitruvius, the influence of whose works in their... systematic of the ancient monuments which inspired the writings of Alberti ; study and received an impetus from the appearance of the first printed This work, which is in the nature edition of Vitruvius (c 1486) of a handbook containing a code of formulae by means of which engineers engaged on the public works of the Roman Empire might clothe any structure in an architectural garb, was accepted by the of the. .. school was to reduce the influence of Italy on the French Renaissance to the PREFACE VI11 Their arguments were chiefly based on the which are extant in an seldom mention the names of admittedly incomplete state, eminent Italians, who were often paid by the grant of benefices and Court sinecures, while they do include the names of obscure vanishing point fact that building accounts of the period, Frenchmen,... especially in the reigns of Philip Augustus and Saint Louis, this state was gaining in consistency, power, and territory, and France took a leading part not only in the political, but also in the spiritual, intellectual, and artistic life of Europe age of crusading and chivalry, of the This was the heroic and the guilds, It was followed by one religious orders of scholastic theology and cathedral building of. .. means of its introduction, the character of the results was by the Italian interpretations through which it reached France, and this varied not only from century to century, but simultaneously in different parts of Italy profoundly affected In Tuscany, the cradle of the Renaissance in the early quattro cento, architecture proper maintained a certain austerity, and the (Jelicate and rather minute type of. .. Henry II Style By this time the Renaissance was flowing in two one hand a French school of parallel streams- On the free Classic grew out of the school of Fontainebleau under the later Valois and developed in the early seventeenth century under the influence of Flemish Barocco- into the rather coarse forms of the Style of Louis XIII * " The Renaissance : Compelled into Studies in Art and Poetiy," 2nd edition,... while in garden design English influence was the chief factor in the revolution against the classical at home assisted tradition in the eighteenth century But, in architecture at this time, English and Dutch influence, if not very powerful, contributed something to the puristic reaction The metaphor contained in the word Renaissance is very applicable to the architecture of France, re-born of the marriage... Greece and Rome The present work at least a is PREFACE VI and of Anderson's " Architecture of the Renaissance in Italy," with an account of the main trend of architectural thought and practice in France during the period defined, and of the principal connected with important buildings and architects, set forth in their relation to political, social, and literary history The execution of the task has been . an end with that of the Empire, whose existence, feebly prolonged in the midst of new and disturbing influences, may be said to have died out about the time of the fall of the elder Bourbons. On the other hand the work resulting from these influences in the succeeding period is too eclectic to possess the recognisable characteristics of a style, and. 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