Moore, Charles Herbert, 1840-1930 · New York, London, The Macmillan Company · leaf 57
the imposts of archivolts. 30 ARCHITECTURE OF THE RENAISSANCE CHAP, nearest approach to it in Roman art is the entablature blockresting on the capital (as in the great hall of the Baths ofCaracalla), which was a blundering device of the later Romanarchitects. The complete entablature running… … Fiu. 13. — Facade of the Pazzi chapel. gling with the traditional use of the entablature and the intro-duction of the arch sprung from the columns. But after theadmirable logic of the mediaeval arched systems of constructionhad been reached it appears strange that any designer shouldgo back to this…
Architecture, Renaissance
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