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 490
rch owes itssplendor also contributed each in someway to diminish its efEect; for the single feels tlio clnircli to be smaller than he hadexpected. Tiie difficulty is increased bythe colossal size of the sculptured figuresin the decoration, which suggest a falsescale, and mislead the spectators… … Fig. 200 —R, great order, for which both Bramante andMicliail Angelo are responsible, while itadds dignity to the design, undoubtedlyteiuls to dwarf it and prevents its scalefrom being appreciated. The grandeur ofthe design appears, not from the front,but from some point in the rear where thedome…
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