Moore, Charles Herbert, 1840-1930 · New York, London, The Macmillan Company · leaf 187
of pilasters on podiums.The pilasters of the upper order carry archivolts instead of anentablature, thus recalling the mediaeval Lombard blind arcade,and the walls above this are crowned with an entablature. Ov^erthe portal a curved pediment is set against the entablature of thelower order, and the… … FiG, 89. — Santa Maria dei Miracoli, Venice. faces are incrusted with marble panelling set with disks andlesser panels of cruciform and rectangular shapes in faintlycoloured marbles, and the whole building is a marvel of excel- VIII CHURCH ARCHITECTURE 153 lence in mechanical execution. But the use…
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