Reber, Franz von, 1834-1919, Clarke, Joseph Thacher, d. 1920 · New York : Harper & Bros. · leaf 105
decidedly Asiatic. The Church of the Annunciation in theKremlin, built between 1489 and 1508, bore a similar relation to itsarchitect, an Italian by the name of Alvisio. The remarkable edificeVassili Blagennoi in Moscow, built in 1554 by Ivan the Cruel, incommemoration of the subjugation of Kazan… … Fig. 41.—House of a Russian Boyar, according to the Restoration of Viollet le Due. East were here lavishly introduced. Towers and cupolas, with aprofusion of arches, gables, cornices, and disjointed architecturalforms, were so dominant as almost entirely to conceal the funda-mental construction.…
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