Moore, Charles Herbert, 1840-1930 · New York, London, The Macmillan Company · leaf 143
ed toRome where the conditions were very different from what theyhad been in Florence during the earlier time. Ideals and aspira-tions were further changed, and the quest of material splendourwas more than ever stimulated under the mundane ambitions ofa luxurious and profligate society. Thus it was… … VI PALACE ARCHITECTURE n, of sumptuous palatial houses, though still for some time palatialarchitecture retained much of the earlier moderation in design.The great Roman houses of the early part of the sixteenth cen-tury have a dignity and grandeur that go far to redeem theirincongruities. It was…
Architecture, Renaissance
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