En gren indenfor den franske arkitekturhistorie i 1600 tallet var ikke så begejstret for middelalderen. For dem der hyldede antikken og dens principper om orden var gotikken uden respekt for denne. Gotik var lig med uorden. Figurer som den antikke arkitektteoretiker Vitrivius (25. f.Kr.) bandlyste i kirken, satte middelalderens folk gladeligt ind.
Franskmanden Roland Fréart de Chambray skrev i 1650: "The Gothick order, which is folly and, as it were, the ape of Architecture, in imitation of the Caryatids, composed of certain mutules, figures serving as Consoles, supported by I know not what chimera and ugly little fellows, which one encounters in all the corners of the old Churches of this sort"
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