A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 62
s in Rtinie in the Piazza di S. Pietro,where each has two bjisins of bronze raisedabove tiie large one on the level of the square,the water rising alxjvc the ui)j)ermost basin in asmall jet and falling again over the rim of itinto the larger, and thence into the great basinbelow. These are imitated… … nvf liv ilillcicnl siiilplors. Allctilion may be calledto the v(!ry unusual treatment ot the pilasters inconnection with the diagonal rcssauts, and tlieheavy ribs of the roof. FOUNTAIN tains which depend for their effect entirely onthe overflow from au upper basin. Such a oneis that at the…
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