Moore, Charles Herbert, 1840-1930 · New York, London, The Macmillan Company · leaf 60
e entablatureblocks of late Roman design are reproduced in the impost(Fig. 15). The revival of this meaningless feature showsagain how little impression the logic of mediaeval art hadmade on the Italian mind, and what lack of discrimination intheir borrowings from the antique the designers of the… … Fig. 15. — Impost of SanLorenzo. 34 ARCHITECTURE OF THE RENAISSANCE CHAP. question; and the frequency with which this superfluous detailwas reproduced in the subsequent architecture of the Renais-sance has given it wide acceptance in more recent times. Not-withstanding the intention of the designer…
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