Moore, Charles Herbert, 1840-1930 · New York, London, The Macmillan Company · leaf 59
should be observed that the details of this attic are 32 ARCHITECTURE OF THE RENAISSANCE wrought in stucco, so that we have with the beginning of theRenaissance a revival of a common ancient Roman practice ofarchitectural deceit. The great order, however, is necessarilyof stone, and its general… … Fig. 14. — Badia of Fiesole. in the neighbourhood to which it bears enough likeness to sug-gest its derivation from them. The facade of the Badia ofFiesole (Fig. 14) is one of these. By substituting a free-stand-ing colonnade for the blind arcade of this front, and breakingits entablature and attic…
Architecture, Renaissance
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