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A text-book of the history of architecture (1904)

Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York [etc.] Longmans, Green, and co. · leaf 318

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architect-ural point of view is the fagade of the P. Vendramini (Ven-dramin-Calergi), by Pietro Lombardo (1481). The simple, THE EARLY RENAISSANCE IN ITALY. 285 stately lines of its composition, the dignity of its broadarched and mullioned windows, separated by engaged col-umns—the earliest example… … FIG. 165.—VENDRAMINI PALACE, VENICE. Italy (Fig. 165). It established a type of large-windowed,vigorously modelled facades which later architects devel-oped, but hardly surpassed. In the smaller contemporary,P. Dario, another type appears, better suited for smallbuildings, depending for effect…

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