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Character of renaissance architecture (1905)

Moore, Charles Herbert, 1840-1930 · New York, London, The Macmillan Company · leaf 68

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l use of the order, andits unfitness as ornament where it has no structural meaning, are fundamental defectsof this as of most other Renaissance designs. The schemeof St. Andrea foreshadows that of St. Peters, and was un-doubtedly in the mind of Bramante when he was preparing hiscolossal project… … Fig. 18. — Sant Andrea, Mantua. 40 ARCHITECTURE OF THE RENAISSANCE and has no correspondence in its parts with those of the buildingitself. In outline it is an unbroken rectangle crowned with apediment. A very shallow order of Corinthian pilasters dividesit into a wide central bay and two narrow…

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