Moore, Charles Herbert, 1840-1930 · New York, London, The Macmillan Company · leaf 181
Pi( . 82. — Portal of Como. puerile as the scheme is, I believe it is derived from a commonform of Lombard Romanesque porch which is entirely reason-able in design. A comparison of this portal with the porch L 146 ARCHITECTURE OE THE RENAISSANCE of San Zeno of Verona (Fig. 83) will illustrate this.… … FiG. 83. — Porch of San Zeno, Verona. sonable in itself, while they are equally reasonable in combina-tion. But if the porch were eliminated, with exception of itsfacade, and this facade were drawn back into the plane of the CHURCH ARCHITECTURE 147 wall, so as merely to frame in the portal, the…
Architecture, Renaissance
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