Letters of an architect, from France, Italy, and Greece (1828)
Woods, Joseph, 1776-1864 · London : J. and A. Arch · leaf 205
ng repairs of the old work.We may consider, therefore, the original design as far as we can trace it,as an example of the architecture of the beginning of the fifteenth centuryat Naples, a period at which Brunelleschi was flourishing at Florence,and the Gothic forms were already discarded. I… … The upper gable is now truncated, and the spaces between the smallerones and the building, are walled up, forming an uglier front than you can CATHEDRAL AT NAPLES. 181 well conceive, out of what really appears to have been a pleasing compo-sition. The cathedral at Mantua seems to have been an…
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