How to know architecture : the human elements in the evolution of styles (1914)
Wallis, Frank Edwin, 1862-1929 · New York : Harper and Brothers · leaf 215
cewith arched openings and arcades as was being donethroughout Italy, they were truer to the classic tradition inthe matter of making their supports really carry a load.In the Florentine, for instance, they were often merelyplastered on the face of the walls. The Library bySansovino is a… … FIG. 77—PUBLIC LIBRARY NO. 29, NEW YORK (FLORENTINE) THE THIRD GREAT TRANSITION variety that is called baroque (shell-like). This period of de-cadence interestingly parallels that of the time of Louis XV.in France, which we shall study in a subsequent chapter. The influence of Rome is, it seems,…
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