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Character of renaissance architecture (1905)

Moore, Charles Herbert, 1840-1930 · New York, London, The Macmillan Company · leaf 192

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nclosed story,and this is on the level of the upper arcadeof the east side. The architectural schemeof this part is different, except that its en-tablature is a continuation of the lower one of the easternfacade. The work here appears to have been wholly new,and the regularly spaced windows are… … Fig. 90. 156 ARCHITECTURE OF THE RENAISSANCE chap. veined marble, and an ornamental disk in relief is set in eachinterspace. The finest thing in this court is the giants stair. Few archi-tectural works of the Renaissance are so reasonable and so freefrom superfluous and unmeaning features. The…

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