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An architect's sketch book (1912)

Peabody, Robert Swain, 1845-1917 · Boston, Houghton Mifflin · leaf 54

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e a richness and sumptuousness that thelatter never permitted to himself. His work marks the high-est standard of the Early Renaissance. Almost directly after his day the sway of Michael Angelobegan. Much of his architecture is certainly careless and un-finished; such, for instance, as that which… … The Italian Renaissance 25 dome. But his example had the strongest and most lastinginfluence through his use of the great orders. Many of us mayregret that the Early Renaissance was turned aside into otherpaths before it had attained complete results. Most of us finddelight in the fanciful and…

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