A cyclopaedia of works of architecture in Italy, Greece, and the Levant (1895)
Longfellow, William Pitt Preble, 1836-1913 · New York, Scribner's sons · leaf 184
l domes, their angles reinforcedby buttresses of great jjrojection, and thevast central dome rising above all, hasgreat variety and interest. The dome has FLORENCE not !ill the effect wliicli belongs to its sizeand height and superb outline ; the drumis but a repetition of tiie flat clerestorywall… … Fig. 68.—Florence, Cathedral, East End. of lirunellescjiis task must he remem-bered. The fact that it was absolutelywithout precedent makes his achievementextraordinary: and the wonder is, themechanical dilliculties being brilliantlyovercouie, not tiiat the artistic result isfaulty in detail, but…
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