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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 185

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statues byDonatello and other masters, the designwas long believed to have been by (iiotto.More recent researches make this impi-ob-able, and seem to show that the fac/adewas not begun at the period of his dcatJiin 1337. A few jears after the cathedralThe black plan shows the church as it is… … Fig, 69.—Florence, Cathedral, Plan. 1S3 FLORENCE isliiug of the facade, but the death of Lo-renzo the -Magiiiiiceiit put a stop to tlieproject, which was revived in 1515, wlieuSansovino made a design accompanied bya wooden model. This also came to noth-ing, antl the unfinislied front stood…

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