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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 275

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a new front. The first prizewas given to Brentano of Milan, who,however, died in 1891. {See Figs. 108,109.) OhiEDAi.K Machuoke, or Gkaxue (theGreat Hospital), one of the most remark-able buildings of Milan, was founded in1456 by Duke Francesco Sforza and hiswife, at a time when the Gothic style… … It was Fig. 109.—Milan. Cathedral, Interior. ering each a space about 340 ft. square,and composed of rectangular masses ofbuilding, enclosing four courts about 90ft. square each. Of this vast design onlythe north wing was carried out under theSforzas ; but toward the end of the xvcent. Bramante…

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