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RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE IN FRANCE. 



382. PARIS : CHAPEL IN ST 

 JEAN-EN-GREVE (NOW 

 DESTROYED), BY 

 BLONDEL (1733). 

 FROM BLONDEL. 



J. F. 

 PLAN. 



more than a reduced edition of its proto- 

 type. Something of the same kind was 

 done by Jean Frangois Blondel in a chapel 

 he added to the church of St Jean-en- 

 Greve at Paris (1733) (Figs. 382 and 383). 

 The nave was oblong in plan with rounded 

 angles and was separated from the raised 

 aisles which ran round three sides, and the 

 vestibule on the fourth, by an arcade with 

 columns standing in front of the piers and 

 solid convex pilastered blocks in the angles 

 aligning with the columns. The frieze in 

 the entablature of this order took the form 

 of a deep cove, thus reducing the area of 

 the ceiled timber clearstorey, by means of 

 which the chapel was lit, no sidelights being 

 obtainable. The decoration throughout, 

 and especially that of the cove and the altar, 



was of the fashionable rococo type, similar to the contemporary work 



in the drawing-rooms of the Hotel de Soubise. 



In another group of churches the vaulting is also made to spring 



from a colonnade, but 



the naves and aisles 



being approximately of 



the same height, and 



the arcade springing 



from the same level as 



the vault and thus in- 

 tersecting them, the 



effect is quite different. 



In the Madeleine 



Church at Besancon 



(1766), a large and 



remarkable cruciform 



church with aisles and 



chapels, whose severe 



exterior contrasts 



oddly with the rococo 



surface decoration of 



its vaults, the arcade 



and vaults spring from 



a blocking course over 



the entablature of an 3 g 3 PARIS . CHAPEL IN ST JEAN-EN-GREVE. 



order of coupled Ionic SECTION. FROM BLONDEL. 



