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The builders of Florence (1907)

Brown, J. Wood (James Wood) · New York, E.P. Dutton and company · leaf 123

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ne of the house 102 THE BUILDERS OF FLORENCE front, and so leaves but a ribbon of blue sky visible from thenarrow and shady street. Structurally, such roofs are nothing- butthe beam-work of the old galleries set at a new, a falling angle—see those over the shops of the Ponte Vecchio—and, if the… … Detevil of wooden bi&ckefinb over ./hop/ on ^onfe Vecchio 9^ohce ffie droop in the heacl/.jhewin&how inclined eewef-biackeljr were derived /fom hSe yh©.i6ht pul-lo& . brackets with profiles that recall the earlier corbels ; or let him goto the Gaddi frescoes in Sta. Croce to learn from…

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