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Character of renaissance architecture (1905)

Moore, Charles Herbert, 1840-1930 · New York, London, The Macmillan Company · leaf 172

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s opening beneath a largerarch. To all this mixture of Romanesque and neo-classic fea-tures a pseudo-Gothic character is superadded by statues set inniches of the buttresses, and spiky pinnacles over the lateralbays. The details of this overelaborate composition, the workof several successive… … Fig. 78. — Certosa of Pavia. 138 ARCHITECTURE OF THE RENAISSANCE chap. of San Satiro are of special interest because they are said tOhave been designed by Bramante.^ The church bears, I think, unmistakable marks of Bra-mantes authorship, being a reflection on a reduced scale of St.Andrea of Mantua…

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