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Character of renaissance architecture (1905)

Moore, Charles Herbert, 1840-1930 · New York, London, The Macmillan Company · leaf 69

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8. — 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 ones. A… … Fig. 19. — Facade of Sant Andrea, Mantua. an arch reaching to the entablature opens into the lateral com-partment on each side, and each of these compartments has abarrel vault with its axis perpendicular to that of the great cen-tral one. The entablature of the small order is carried acrossthe…

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