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History of architecture, from the earliest times; its present condition in Europe and the United States; with a biography of eminent architects, and a glossary of architectural terms (1848)

Tuthill, Louisa C. (Louisa Caroline), 1798-1879 · Philadelphia, Lindsay and Blakiston · leaf 243

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ts proper dimensions,and admitted that light freely intothe apartments of a dwelling,which the fierce character of ear-lier times had long obliged themfor safety, to exclude. The ex-ample in the margin, of one of thegraceful windows of Bramante, is from the PalazzoGiraud, Rome. (Fig. 32.) Their… … 13 194 CLASSIC ARCHITECTURE. Michael Angelo introduced the first confusion intothis style, by employing Corinthian or Ionic columnswith their entablatures, for supports of a cornice andpediment above a window. One improvement hemade upon the cinquecento, by the introduction of arich cornice as a…

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