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Character of renaissance architecture (1905)

Moore, Charles Herbert, 1840-1930 · New York, London, The Macmillan Company · leaf 75

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ancient model,and in no true sense an original design. The changes wroughtby the copyist are not of a creative kind consistent with trueprinciples of building. The pilasters, and the balustrade withwhich the order of the portico is crowned, are superfluous, andthe work as a whole shows little of… … Fig. 22.— San Pietro in Montorio, from Serlio. But Bramante manifested his real powers in his project forthe great church of St. Peter, his capital work, which, however,was never carried to completion. It is well known how PopeJulius II had conceived the idea of erecting a vast tomb forhimself, and…

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