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75. CAEN : HOTEL D'ECOVILLE : DOORWAY IN LOGGIA. 



Measured and Drawn by Arthur Stratton. 



representing the Field of the Cloth of Gold. The characteristics here 

 exhibited the realism, the great relief, the squat forms, and the fondness 

 for the candelabrum motive are shared by the Amboise monument in 

 the cathedral and to some extent by the chevet of St Pierre at Caen 

 (Figs. 113 and 114). 



A more normal type is represented by the Hotels de la Monnaie 

 (1531-35) and de Mondrainville (finished 1549) at Caen. These formed 

 part of a great mansion built for Etienne Duval by Blaise Le Prestre and 

 his sons, the builders of that of Nicolas de Valois, Seigneur d'Ecoville, 

 in the same city (1535-38), which is perhaps the most perfect specimen 

 of a town mansion of this period. It belongs to the late phase of 

 Francis I. work (see p. 115), and exhibits a purity of detail, an elegance 

 of proportions, a consummate ingenuity in the adjustment of the claims 

 of symmetry and utility such as are seldom found in combination. The 

 buildings occupy the four sides of a court (Fig. 74). Their most 



