How to know architecture : the human elements in the evolution of styles (1914)
Wallis, Frank Edwin, 1862-1929 · New York : Harper and Brothers · leaf 209
athedral with equal sure-ness and success. Palaces, fortifications, sculpture, paint-ing, and faience are accepted as the work of one manwithout incredulity. Even the change of rule from the uncertain dukes tothe stable Medicis, with all it represented, seems only tohave intensified the creative… … THE THIRD GREAT TRANSITION and the massive translation of the classic cornice all denotestrength without grossness, the power of a splendid re-pose. The arches are round on the inside, but the centrestones are thickened so as to make the outer line inpointed arch form, which gives a suggestion of…
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