Moore, Charles Herbert, 1840-1930 · New York, London, The Macmillan Company · leaf 160
thespandrels are adornedwith sculptures in highrelief after the mannerof those of the Romantriumphal arches. Overthe smaller arch in eachnarrow bay the spandrelsare in relief and arecrowned with a pedimentsurmounted by a horizon-tal cornice on a shallow ressaut corresponding to that of the… … Fig. 71. — Palazzo Bevilacqua. 128 ARCHITECTURE OF THE RENAISSANCE chap. as in the wider ones, and carved festoons fill the spaces betweenthem and the capitals on either side. It is a capricious scheme,by which the designer has sought to quicken the jaded sensi-bilities of people surfeited with…
Architecture, Renaissance
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