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RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE IN FRANCE. 



115. SENS CATHEDRAL : SIDE CHAPEL. 



a pitch of excellence towards the end of it, scarcely surpassed even in 

 the Middle Ages: Italian influence was confined to the character of 

 the ornament and the interpretation of the subjects. The drawing and 

 perspective improved, the treatment became rather more pictorial, while 

 the colour acquired a delicacy hitherto unattained. The grisailles 

 assumed more silvery tones, and the agglomerations of crocketed canopy 

 work gave place to the simpler lines of Renaissance architecture and 

 arabesques. The treatment still in the main fulfilled the requirements 

 of the medium, though containing elements which led to decline in the 

 second half of the century. Good specimens of sixteenth-century 

 stained glass are to be seen in St Etienne-du-Mont, Paris, St Vincent, 

 Rouen, and in the churches of Troyes. 



Renaissance churches were often decorated in colour. Examples 

 of such decoration on roofs and walls are to be found in parts of the 

 interior of St Eustache, and the castle chapels of Ecouen and La 



