A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance (1901)
Cummings, Charles Amos, 1833-1905 · Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin and company · leaf 298
Fig-. 434. Florence. Plan of Palazzo Vecchio. It is extremely simple — three great round arches on the front andone on each end enclosing a rectangular space of about forty byone hundred and ten feet, covered by three square groined vaults.(Fig. 435.) But the scale of the work is gigantic; and the… … Fig. 435. Florence. Loggia dei Lanzi. ornament so beautiful and so well placed, that the effect is hardlysurpassed by any monument of civil architecture in Italy. Thearches, which have a span of thirty-two feet and a height of fifty,are supported on octagonal piers about six feet in diameter, with…
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