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Character of renaissance architecture (1905)

Moore, Charles Herbert, 1840-1930 · New York, London, The Macmillan Company · leaf 218

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eum, withits spiky cusps and its exquisite systems of radiating lines —at once true to nature and effective as ornament; and com-pare with these any examples of Roman, or Graeco-Roman, Fig. 102. — Pilaster in the NationalMuseum, Florence. ARCHITECTURAL CARVING 175 leafage, as A and /?(Fig. 104).… … FiG. 103. — Greek leafage. modelled flatness of the surfaces between the furrows. Andnotice in B, from a Corinthian capital supposed to have belongedto the so-called Temple of Jupiter Stator, the immoderate andartificial undulations of line and surface.

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