Goodyear, W. H. (William Henry), 1846-1923 · Meadville, Pa. : Flood and Vincent · leaf 84
No similar Romandoorway can be quoted.Our nearest parallel inRoman art would be the framing of a niche for a statue,and it is most likely that the entablature, with the columnsand the arc above them, were borrowed from separatebuildings (neither of them from a door), and recombinedaccording to a… … Fig, 30.—Doorway of the Cloister of SantaCroce. Florence. By Brunellesco. 78 Renaissance and Modem A?i. The distinction which I have already emphasized in generalbetween Roman architecture and Renaissance copies, isthus illustrated by a special example. An infinite numberof such comparisons might…
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