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How to know architecture : the human elements in the evolution of styles (1914)

Wallis, Frank Edwin, 1862-1929 · New York : Harper and Brothers · leaf 206

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eceived from the Easternrefugees a new knowledge of ancient Greek art and litera-ture. They brought with them manuscripts that stirredthe scholars profoundly and started the ransacking of themonasteries and churches of Italy. In consequence we findmen like Dante and Petrarch under the classic… … X^.\ i HOW TO KNOW ARCHITECTURE by the Turks, there was apparently no return to the Greekoriginals, Roman sources of inspiration being drawn uponentirely. It must be realized that conditions of living had changedgreatly since early Roman and Greek times. Second andthird stories had been added to…

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