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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 168

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or facade stands on a wall, with two large pyra-midal pilasters of marble rising from the bottom of the fosse; at the top are two roundenclosures approaching almost to towers. In the interior, to the two gates near the anglesare two corresponding long ))assages, vaulted, leading to a number of… … chapel at San liernardino, wliose beauty, we think, has scarcelv ever been surpassed, andwhich exhibits, in a striking degree, the early i)erfection of the \enctian school. It was notlinisiied under San .Micheli, and blemishes are to be found in it ; it is nevertheless an ex(|ui-site ])rotlucti()n,…

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