An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth (1888)
Gwilt, Joseph, 1784-1863, Papworth, Wyatt Angelicus Van Sandau, 1822-1894 · London Longmans, Green · leaf 154
brium, equally requisite for the beauty no less than lor the solidity ofan edilice. He returned to Florence in 1407. In this year the citizens convokedan assembly of architects and engineers to deliberate upon somo plan for finishingthe Duomo. To this assembly Brunelleschi was invited, and gave his… … AND IIAI.P SECTION OP SANTA MARIA DEL PIORB. commission was at length confided to him, the disgraceful assignment to him of LorenzoGhiherti as a colleague, whose incapacity for such a task our architect soon made manifest.Suffice it to say, that hefore his death he had the satisfaction to see the…
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