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 52
oyances ensuingthat the fanciful Florentines produced the conceit that theheavens were jealous of their dome, which bade fair to rivalthe beauty of the blue ethereal vault itself. Domes had beenconstructed not so long before at Pisa, Siena, and at St. Marks,Venice, but none of them on such a grand… … Section of the Dlomo, Florence. Brunelleschi, Archt. * Milizias Lives of Celebrated Atchi.ccts. i6 THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY IN FLORENCE. The difficulties of so large a construction were much increasedby the adoption of the drum on which the dome is raised, andthrough which it is lighted, while an…
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