Moore, Charles Herbert, 1840-1930 · New York, London, The Macmillan Company · leaf 126
e rest,so that the ends form ressauts. Of the complete removal of a THE ROMAN- RENAISSANCE 95 part of the cornice I know no instance in the Roman archi-tecture of antiquity. To this, however, the architects of thelater Renaissance were, in their desire for novelty of design,led. But the corniceof a… … Fig. 51. — Pediment of Baalbek. expression, if nothing more, of a sheltering roof to what itsurmounts (unless we are to assume that architectural designis a matter of purely fanciful composition of lines with nostructural meaning or expression). To cut a piece out of themiddle of it is an…
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