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Character of renaissance architecture (1905)

Moore, Charles Herbert, 1840-1930 · New York, London, The Macmillan Company · leaf 117

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longto another, the eye will be offended, because custom otherwiseappHes these peculiarities. ^ The Roman writer might, indeed,have given a better reason why the purity of the orders oughtto be maintained, namely, because to each of them the fineartistic genius of the Greeks had given its… … IlG. 44. — Half plan of Sant Anilrea. Molle outside of the Porta del Popolo at Rome (Figs. 44, 45, and46). It is a small, oblong, rectangular enclosure covered with adome of oval plan on pendentives. The structural scheme is thusprimarily Byzantine, but the architectural treatment is Roman.The dome…

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