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Built from 1532 to 1637, the main structure is late Gothic with a somewhat incongruous but imposing Renaissance colonnade on its western façade.
The five-tiered auditorium, with its incongruous modern ceiling painted by Chagall in 1964, holds a mere 2,000 spectators.
Take the walkway on the opposite side of the ﬂyover from the baths and you will catch the incongruous sight of a dozen isolated Corinthian columns with a 1960s housing estate backdrop.
Humor is defined in the OED as that quality of action, speech, or writing which excites amusement and in MWIII as that expression of ideas in a happening, an action, a situation, or an expression of ideas which appeals to a sense of the ludicrous or absurdly incongruous.
The New Yorker 's Calvin Tomkins finds such serenity incongruous with the rest of de Kooning's career: "What's missing is the melodrama of vulgarity.