RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE IN FRANCE. 



The second class corresponds to the type to which the Cathedral 

 of Como belongs, and includes such buildings as the Chapel of St 

 Romain at Rouen (Fig. 195), and the so-called Henry II. wing of the 

 archbishop's palace at Sens (Fig. 119). This second transition 

 is observable also in the Peristyle at Fontainebleau ; in the chateaux 

 of Mesnieres, Landifer, and Serrant ; and in the Hotel Cabu at 

 Orleans, by Michel Adam (now Museum). 



This change of character was produced by the influence of the 

 architects of the Italian culminating phase as well as by the study of 

 antiquity, both in its monuments and in Vitruvius. The styles in 

 vogue under Henry II. in France and Pope Julius II. in Italy were thus 

 closely allied, but not identical. Two points differentiate them. 

 France had the benefit of experiments already made beyond the Alps, 

 and had to take them into account, and in doing so she imbibed at the 



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