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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 935

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in art rises by belmr madionly subservient to tlie holy purpose to which it is the mere handmaid. In the rnentioiof doors those of San Giovanni Laterano at Home must not be omitted; they have the crediof having lieen the enclosures to the temple of Saturn in the ancient city. 2736. The manuficture… … J737. Fig. 9.5G. is an external doorway designed and executed by Vignola, at Caprarolanot a great distance north of Rome ; it must speak for itself: if the reader be of ouimind, he will see in it a beautiful handling of the subject; but we cannot further answer foiour opinion, knowing as we do that…

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