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Updated: May 15, 2025
In the dedication of Philibert Delorme's "Traite d'Architecture" he expressed himself thus with regard to the Tuileries: "Madame, I see from day to day with an increasing pleasure the interest that your Majesty takes in architecture.
The revolution in the art of garden-making therefore preceded that of the world of politics by some years. There are three or four works which give specific details on these questions. They are "De la Distribution des Maisons de Plaisance," by Blondel , his "Cours d'Architecture" of the same date, and Panseron's volume entitled "Recueil de Jardinage," published in 1783.
M. Saladin, in his "Manuel d'Architecture Musulmane," after attempting to unravel the influences which went to the making of the mosque of Kairouan, the walls of Marrakech, the Medersas of Fez influences that lead him back to Chaldaean branch-huts, to the walls of Babylon and the embroideries of Coptic Egypt somewhat despairingly sums up the result: "The principal elements contributed to Moslem art by the styles preceding it may be thus enumerated: from India, floral ornament; from Persia, the structural principles of the Acheminedes, and the Sassanian vault.
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