{Renaissance Architecture [continued (31)]}[1st May 1991]

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‘The most notable feature of the interior elevation of the wing of Francis I [(built 1515-24[ce], at the château at Blois)] is a great octagonal open staircase, five sides of which project into the court. Within* is a spiral staircase ** sat on a continuous tunnel vault that is supported by radiating piers. On the surface of the piers are panels in low relief of Arabesque decoration, of a type that is found often in Lombard Renaissance architecture. The richness of the Lombard style blends very well with Flamboyant Gothic, which had always been characterised by intricate rich decoration.

*Within what?

**This is hard to envision.

*** – ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 13]: 1006

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