Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 395
pper storiesare divided alternately into wide and narrow divisions bypilasters, the windows being placed in the wide divisions.This building is a marked improvement in point of beautyon the Pitti and Rucellai palaces. The Farnese Palace is another typical building of theRenaissance. The design of… … Fig. 408.—Portion of theStiozzi Palace. RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE AND ORNAMENT. 375 its numerous windows of equal size. IMichelangelo is saidto have designed some of the windows and the cornice(Fig. 409), though some say that the architect Vignola wasthe designer of the cornice. The central doorway…
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