Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, and co. · leaf 290
of these colossal dimensions is, how-ever, as in a number of these large Italian interiors, singu-larly belittled by the bareness of the walls, by the great sizeof the constituent parts of the composition, and by the lackof architectural subdivisions and multiplied detail to serveas a scale by… … FIG. 148.—NAVE OF DUOMO AT FLORENCE, 258 HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE. with paintings and color decoration. This would have rem-edied their present nakedness and lack of interest, but itwas only in a very few instances carried out. The doublechurch of S. Francesco at Assisi, decorated by Cimabue,…
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