The American house carpenter. A treatise on the art of building. Comprising styles of architecture, strength of materials, and the theory and practice of the construction of floors, framed girders, roof trusses, rolled-iron beams, tubular-iron girders, cast-iron girders, stairs, doors, windows, mouldings, and cornices; together with a compend of mathematics. A manual for the practical use of architects, carpenters, stair-builders, and others (1880)
Hatfield, R. G. (Robert Griffith), 1815-1879, Hatfield, O. P., ed · New York, J. Wiley & sons · leaf 34
Italy.—In the 14th and 15th cen-turies, architecture in Italy was greatly revived. The mas-ters began to study the remains of ancient Roman edifices ;and many splendid buildings were erected, which displayeda purer taste in the science. Among others, St. Peters ofRome, which was built about this… … INTERIOR OF ST. SOPHIA. CONSTANTINOPLE. I ORIGIN OF STYLES. 13 former excellence. In the edifices which were erected undertheir direction, however, it is plainly to be seen that theystudied not from the pure models of Greece, but from theremains of the deteriorated architecture of Rome. Thehigh…
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