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 615
designed in an ex-travagant taste, more decorative thanarchitectural, and in defiance of the rulesby which the developed architecture of theEenaissance was governed. Its fa5ade isof irregular height, with two stories divid-ed into bays by Corinthian pilasters withbroken entablatures. All of the… … Fig, 245,—Venice, Scuola di S. Giovanni, Interior detail. is occupied by a square doorway with around-arched head, enclosed between de-tached Corinthian columns carrying abroken semicircular jjediment. The in-tercolumniations of this story are filledwith reliefs in marble in simulated per-spective.…
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