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ARCHITECTURE OF THE RENAISSANCE
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is forced to embrace the whole front as if it were one stage." And he adds: "C'était 1à I'œuvre d'un artiste consommé."[1] Thus in one case the architect is lauded for employing the order like a buttress system to justify its embracing two stories, while in the other he is praised for giving a deceptive
Fig. 126.—Interior façade of Charleval, Du Cerceau.
appearance of only one story; so that this part of the design may, as the writer says in another place, be in better scale with the order. But the distinguished author betrays embarrassment in dealing further with these architectural incongruities of
- ↑ Op. cit., p. 375.
