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Character of renaissance architecture (1905)

Moore, Charles Herbert, 1840-1930 · New York, London, The Macmillan Company · leaf 114

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e bays, iscovered with a barrelvault, and the aisles havesmall domes on penden-tivcs. The supportingpiers are square with ashallow Corinthian pilas-ter on the face of eachand an entablature pass-ing over the crowns ofthe arches. The archi-volts are deep, and eachone is moulded on the face and plain… … Fig. 42. — Santissima Annunziatta, Arezzo. 84 ARCHITECTURE OF THE RENAISSANCE chap. and is crowned with a heavy cornice from which the vaultingsprings. We have here a structural system of imperial Romanmassiveness, necessitated by the use of the great barrel vault. After the early part of the…

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