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 195
but greatly al-tered and modernized in the xv cent, byLeon Battista Alberti. Across the frontof the church is an open loggia of lightarcades on comjjosite columns carryingblocks of entablature. This ojiens by a central door into a large atrium or fore-court, surrounded by vaulted arcades,… … Fig 75—Florence, Pal Vecchio. elled ceiling decorated with gold andcolor, without aisles, but with a row ofrectangular chapels opening from it bysemicircular arches on each side, in theintervals of an order of pilasters, andrectangular windows in the wall above.The nave opens into a circular choir…
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