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 542
of a group ofSienese palaces during the second half ofthe XV cent., and having all the char-acteristics of tlie great Florentine palacesof the same epoch. It was built for PiusII., about the year 1469, by Bernardo Eos-sellino, the architect of his buildings atPienza. Its principal facade is about… … Fig. 211.—S.ena, Pal. Pubblico. second and third stories have each a rangeof nine broad two-light windows, round-arched, with sub-arches divided by a col-umn. Vigorous string-courses with den-tils run under the windows, and the frontis crowned by a bold and well-developedcorniccione with plain…
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