[6] It must not be forgotten that the so-called "styles" of Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI were, in fact, only the gradual development of one organic style, and hence differed only in the superficial use of ornament.
[7] There is no objection to putting a fireplace between two doors, provided both doors be at least six feet from the chimney.
[8] Not rattan, as the models are too bad.
[9] A Complete Body of Architecture, Book II, chap. iii.
[10] See the saloon at Easton Neston, built by Nicholas Hawkesmoor ([Plate XIII]), and various examples given in Pyne's Royal Residences.
[11] See Viollet-le-Duc, Dictionnaire raisonné de l'Architecture française, under Porte.
[12] This painting has now been restored to its proper position in the Scuola della Carità, and the door which had been painted in under the stairs has been removed to make way for the actual doorway around which the picture was originally painted.
[13] See the doors of the Sala dello Zodiaco in the ducal palace at Mantua ([Plate XVI]).
[14] Some rooms of the rocaille period, however, contain doors as elaborately carved as those seen in France (see the doors in the royal palace at Genoa, [Plate XXXIV]).
[15] See the doors at Vaux-le-Vicomte and in the Palais de Justice at Rennes.