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VlLLBRS-COTTRRETS : 



"TEMPLE" IN THE 

 PARK, BY PH. L>E 

 L'ORME (Now DE- 

 STROYED). From a 

 Draining by du Cer- 

 ceau. 



that the impossibility of finding monoliths 

 for the columns led to the invention of the 

 banded "French Order" (cf. Fig. 159). 



CHATEAU-CHAPEL, ANET. A more im- 

 portant example of dome construction is the 

 still existing chateau-chapel at Anet, whose 

 plan is a circle extended into a Greek cross 

 by four short arms, with rectangular turrets 

 in the angles containing stairs and sacristies 

 (Fig. 200). The chapel was entered from 

 the cloister of the court of honour by an 199- 

 open narthex. In the three disengaged arms 

 the outer wall is convex and concentric with 

 the circular nave. The latter has a semi- 

 circular stone dome carrying a lantern ; its 

 stonework is exposed and of such excellent 

 construction as to have stood unimpaired to 



this day ; nights of steps are carried up its face from each angle to 

 the lantern. Internally it is coffered in a diagonal converging pattern 

 which is reproduced in the marble pavement. The arms of the cross 

 have panelled barrels or deep arches, whose faces cut into the circular 

 drum, and are thus in winding with very unpleasant effect. Another 



blemish is that the win- 

 dows cut through the 

 entablature which forms 

 the springing of the 

 arches without even re- 

 turning its members. 

 The sculptured decora- 

 tion was largely carried 

 out by Jean Goujon, the 

 stained glass by Jean 

 Cousin, and a series of 

 figures of the apostles in 

 Limoges enamel by 

 Leonard Limousin. 



VALOIS MAUSOLEUM, 

 ST DENIS. The history 

 of dome construction in 



the sixteenth century 

 ends with the noblest and 



most harmonious ex- 

 200. ANET : CHATEAU CHAPEL, BY PH. DE . 



L'ORME. PLAN FROM DU CERCEAU. ample. 



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