Moore, Charles Herbert, 1840-1930 · New York, London, The Macmillan Company · leaf 134
eristicmediaeval Florentine form in which the extrados is pointedwhile the intrados is round (Fig. 56), is a model of architecturalsimplicity, while it expresses the superior social station of itsinmates. A few smaller houses of similar character as toquietness and simplicity of design, many of… … Florence CHAP. VI PALACE ARCHITECTURE 103 string courses marking off the stories, and windows in somecases wholly round arched, in others having the extrados pointedwith an ogee curve (Fig. 57). But early in the fifteenth century vast structures for privateuse began to arise which rivalled in…
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