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Character of renaissance architecture (1905)

Moore, Charles Herbert, 1840-1930 · New York, London, The Macmillan Company · leaf 158

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osities of composition, from the influence of whichmodern art has greatly suffered. The works of Sanmichele show an equally exclusive employ-ment of classic features, with the same freedom in deformingthem and using them in novel and ungainly ways. In thePorta del Palio of Verona, a characteristic… … FlG. 70. — Two bays of the Porta del Palio. posed in pairs, dividing the fagade into three wide intervals andfour narrow ones (Fig. 70), and each wide space has a largerectangular recess spanned by a flat arch, with a sculpturedkeystone in the form of a console, under the entablature of theorder.…

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