Louis-Treize

(16’i-traz’), a. [F.] An epithet designating the styles of French architecture and decoration characteristic of the reign of Louis XIII. (1610-43), or in general of the first half of the seventeenth century. The architecture of this time is le light and elegant than that of the earlier Renai ance; it makes extensive use of orders based on the cla ical, and seeks to make them ma ive and big, carrying the columns from the base of the edifice to the cornice. High-pitched roofs continue in favor, as well as Sa Pig effects from the combination of stone and rick; and rustic work or bo age is accentuated. In cabinet-work and decoration kindred elements of design obtain; pseudo-cla ical columns and engaged columns, often bo ed, are usual, and are combined with entablatures, etc., following more or le closely the Vitruvian dicta. Carving in relief is abundant, and often good, but in general le delicate than that of the earlier Renai ance, louk!, v. A dialectal variant of lock, 868 louk louk2, lowk! (louk),v. ¢ [Also look;