Moore, Charles Herbert, 1840-1930 · New York, London, The Macmillan Company · leaf 77
ses and a square tower in each external angle. The whole question ofBramantes scheme, and of the successive transformations to which the design for theedifice was subjected before its final completion, is fully discussed in the work ofBaron H. von GeyniuUer, Die urspruitglichen Entwurf fiir Sanct… … Fig. 23. — Bramantes dome for St. Peters, from Serlio. dome, and that he wished to rival its imposing character. Buthis ardent and intelligent study of the monuments of Romanantiquity had given him a better appreciation of their superior THE DOME OE ST. PETERS 49 Structural merits, and in his…
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