The arts in the Middle Ages, and at the period of the Renaissance (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884, Dafforne, James, d. 1880, tr · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 474
ublic works maycause their grandeur and wisdom to be acknowledged, the order is given toArnolfo, master-architect of our town, to make plans for repairing theChurch of Santa Maria with the greatest and most lavish magnificence, sothat the skill and prudence of men may never invent, nor ever be able… … Ifff J25-—Interior of the Basilica of St. Peters, Rome. 4o8 ARCHITECTURE. him, and to Giotto succeeded Orcagna, and to Orcagna, Brunelleschi, whodesigned and almost completed that Duomo, of which Michael Angelo saidit would be difficult to equal, and impossible to surpass, it. Arnolfo, Giotto,…
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