Moore, Charles Herbert, 1840-1930 · New York, London, The Macmillan Company · leaf 141
Florence he had a taste for the finearts, but, as Vasari tells us, he applied himself not only todiscover the principles and the proportions of antiquity, but also,being naturally so inclined, much more to writing than to prac- io8 ARCHITECTURE OF THE RENAISSANCE CHAP. tice. 1 The moving purpose… … FiG. 59. — Facade of the Rucellai. faces which are appropriate for a building that has no struc-tural framework, we have an order of classic pilasters dividingthe face of each story into bays answering to nothing in thereal system of construction (Fig. 59). We thus have here in 1 op. cit., vol. 2,…
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