Faure, Elie, 1873-1937, Pach, Walter, 1883-1958 · New York and London : Harper & brothers · leaf 422
, almost solid like blocks, without anyother ornament than the brass fists that stick out ofthe walls as hitching posts for the horses. As the palacesstart up from the soil their line is a little oblique, it THE MISSION OF FRANCIS OF ASSISI 395 bends backward, like the spine of a bowman. Higherup… … Siena (xiv Century). Salimbeni Palace. walls on each side of the street defy and menace eachother, with the sinister melody of stone that has beenset in place with a certainty of its practical function,even as a geometrical theorem is inscribed in the logicalfunctioning of the brain. These…
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