How to know architecture : the human elements in the evolution of styles (1914)
Wallis, Frank Edwin, 1862-1929 · New York : Harper and Brothers · leaf 198
he classic itself, in the East.The Turks were storming Constantinople, and the menof intellect, students, and craftsmen had been emigratingto Italy for safety and for greater opportunities. Theypassed by Athens, then controlled by the Turks, but theycame to Rome steeped in the Greek traditions… … FIG. 69—DUCAL PALACE, VENICE HOW TO KNOW ARCHITECTURE of the Dardanelles had, you remember, sent adventurousexplorers out to find new routes to the East. The dis-covery of America and the circumnavigation of Africafollowed. New outlets for trade and new sources ofwealth were being found, and Europe…
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