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the chapel and from the central bay of this fragment which formed part 

 of the cross-gallery separating the two courts and facing the entrance. 

 The rest of the cross-gallery seems to have belonged to an intermediate 

 stage, being mainly, but not entirely, in a Renaissance style. A portion 

 of the cloister which ran along its inner side, with arches springing from 

 piers and from pendents alternately, now stands in the inner court of 

 the Ecole des Beaux Arts. The pleasaunce was laid out by Pietro da 



Mercoliano. 



LE^ VERGER. 

 Nothing is left of the 

 castle of Le Verger 

 in Anjou, also pro- 

 bably built by Fra 

 Giocondo and Colin 

 Biard (1496-99), and 

 known from engrav- 

 ings. Unhampered 

 by existing buildings, 

 it was laid out on a 

 regular plan, but re- 

 tained many Gothic 

 features mixed with 

 others of pure Italian 

 design. 



CHATEAUDUN. 

 The wing added by 

 Cardinal Francis of 

 Orleans - Longueville 

 to his castle of 

 Chateaudun (begun 

 1502) is another 

 superb example of 

 the transitional style 

 (Fig. 9). Taken as 

 a whole, it has the 

 characteristic appearance of a Gothic mansion, and most of its features 

 and detail belong to that style ; yet Renaissance influence is visibly at 

 work, notably in the setting out of the court front with its noble scheme 

 of fenestration and balustraded cornicione, and in the finely designed 

 stair-tower with an open loggia of coupled elliptical arches in each of its 

 four storeys. The detail of these arches, the canopy work, and the main 

 balustrade are pure Gothic. But the beautiful cornice shows an alterna- 

 tion of classic and Gothic members. Pilasters and pediments of a 



18. CHATEAU OK ST OUEN, CHEMAZE : STAIR TOWER. 



