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Character of renaissance architecture (1905)

Moore, Charles Herbert, 1840-1930 · New York, London, The Macmillan Company · leaf 202

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-tian, and belongs more fully to the so-called Roman Renais-sance style which is essentially uniform in character in all partsof the country. In these later palace fronts the main divisionsof the typical Venetian scheme persist indeed, but they are soslightly emphasized, and so overladen with heavy… … jPUBIiCLIBRAKr ••T9R, LKHOX «.*» IX PALACE ARCHITECTURE 163 effect is of evenly spaced pairs of columns in each of the upperstories. It is not until we examine the composition closely thatwe perceive the narrower proportions of the three middle open-ings. The same is true of the facade of the…

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