Letters of an architect, from France, Italy, and Greece (1828)
Woods, Joseph, 1776-1864 · London, J. and A. Arch · leaf 456
the Church of Santa Maria di Consolazione, is perhapsamong the most tolerable of those in Rome, where any considerable en-richment has been attempted; but there are three little churches or cha-pels in the same neighbourhood, where probably the builders were notrich enough to be absurd. The… … If 1 mention to you Santa Maria in Campitelli, it is rather because it ispraised by others, than in compliance with my own taste. An effect ofsplendour is obtained by a multiplication of parts, without much de-pendence on each other. It puzzles rather than pleases. 419 LETTER XXVIIL ROME. Rome, 1th…
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