Moore, Charles Herbert, 1840-1930 · New York, London, The Macmillan Company · leaf 129
undedin profile. In rais-ing the great orderon pedestals Pal-ladio conformedmore closely to an-cient Roman prac-tice than MichaelAngelo and Vig-nola had done;but the pedestalshave a clumsyeffect thus rangedalong the nave, andtheir sharp anglesare in the way ofmoving crowds ofpeople. It is… … Fig. 53.—Orders of San Giorgio. shows in a marked degree how inappropriate is the use of classicorders in a church interior. The application of such orders to abuilding with aisles and a high nave obliges the designer to makeawkward combinations, and to violate true classic usage in THE ROMAN…
Architecture, Renaissance
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