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 629
single low gable with a great rose-win-dow in the centre, and five smaller roundwindows following the rake of the cor-nice. The side elevations seem to showa northern influence, the aisle walls beingdivided into bays each with a jiair of S4U VICEXZA simplelancct windows witli trofoilod licads.and a… … Fig. 255.—Vicenza, Teatro Olimpico, ladio. was an attempt to reproduce theclassic theatre of Greece aud Rome. Itconsists of an auditorium under an awn-ing, in the form of a semi-ellipse, its longerdiameter being about 97 ft., aud its depthfrom the stage about 57 ft. There arefourteen ranges of…
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