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 272
le beasts. One of the most simple and elegant of these palaces is the Palazzodegii Ambasciatori. It has three stories, of which the second — thepiano nobile — has a pergolo of four cusped and pointed arches witha range of quatrefoils in the spandrils, the whole enclosed in a squareformed by the… … Fig. 413. Venice. Palazzo degli Ambasciatori 258 ARCHITECTURE IN riALY The Palazzo Ci-cogna has its pergoloof six arches in thethird story, andabove the arches adouble range of in-tersecting circles en-closing quatrefoils.The effect is singu-larly light and grace-ful. (Fig. 414.) An unusual…
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