The architecture of the renaissance in Italy : a general view for the use of students and others (1909)
Anderson, William J. (William James), 1864-1900 · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 298
ntGreek theatre model. Not to speak of the triumphal arch, theelliptical form of the auditorium, and other matters of detail,the principal point of departure from the Greek precedent is themost interesting feature of the w^hole theatre. For only inRenaissance times could the idea have suggested… … THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL. 155 seem from certain points of view of great length. They hadthis advantage over painted representations, that actors couldenter and approach by means of the street or part of it, howevermuch they might mar the illusion by the different scale ofheights. This theatre was not…
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