Moore, Charles Herbert, 1840-1930 · New York, London, The Macmillan Company · leaf 38
chains. THE DOME OF FLORENCE n thrust.^ Another instance of a similar scheme, and on alarger scale, is that which appears to have formed a part ofArnolfos design for the cathedral of Florence. This domewas never executed, and our knowledge of it is derived fromthe well-known fresco in the Spanish… … Fig. 4. — Dome of Arnolfo. are nevertheless so much curved in elevation that a structureof this form would not stand without strong cinctures. It is,however, not unlikely that the fresco painter has given it amore bulging shape than Arnolfo intended. But domes of thischaracter were exceptional in…
Architecture, Renaissance
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