Moore, Charles Herbert, 1840-1930 · New York, London, The Macmillan Company · leaf 146
Among Renaissance innovations in the useof the orders this is one of the most marked. In ancient Greekusage the columns of an order were equally spaced, save in 1 Cf. p. 144- 112 CHAP. VII PA LA CE AR CHIl ECl URE 1^3 exceptional cases where the central intercolumniation is con-siderably widened to… … Fig. 6i.— Facade of the Cancelkria, Rome. The facade of the Cancelleria has a feature that is not com-mon in Italian architecture, that of a slight advance of the wallat each end, so as to form projecting bays, as in the pavilions ofthe French Renaissance chateau.x. The salience of these baysis…
Architecture, Renaissance
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