Capitolo 78
there to show that that the architects of the thought of the thirteenth century
their brighter attainment. One cannot compare Rentals
directly with some of his/her contemporary competitors, but one is able at least
you compare the old buds with the new one what stands opposed and
increases above of him. He will perhaps like better the new one. Built to a duration
what has agreed to commonly have had the tallest standard of taste,
it doesn't encourage tourist or artist to insist on to put on
standard of his really against him. Started in 1507, you/he/she was ended in
1517. The dome of Saint Pietro in Rome on that Bramante and
Raphael and Michael Angelo tired him, you/he/she was building to the same duration;
From of Leonardo that you Win was working to Amboise; Giovanna Bullant, Pierre
Lescot and their patron, Francis I, was starting them
architectural careers. Four hundred years, or in the proximities, it separated
the old man buds from the new one; and four hundred more separate the
new from us. If Viollet-she-Duc that he built Gothic it buds,
you/he/she had desired to compare his/her fleches to Clermont-Ferrand with the new one
fleche to Rentals, is probable that he would perhaps have given us a rule where
"adresse" it stops having charm, and where I detail it becomes fatiguing;
but in the lack of a teacher to placed down a law of taste you,
please you/he/she can admire as the as new fleche You. One clearly, sees
what the lines of the new tower are not clean, as those of the
old; the equipments to which you/they cover the transition from the plaza the
octagon is rather too obvious; the proportion of the fleche to the
enough proud tower the values of the parts; a classical and rigid taste
it would go till now also as to suggest that the new tower, respect
with the old one, it showed signals of a certain tendency toward a weak and
distant vulgarity. There can be no damage in to admit that the new one
tower is a little wanting in rest for a tower to which business are
counterpoise the very classical lines of the old one; but nothing law