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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 323

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and windows betray the results of classic study,as well as the refined taste of their designer.* The beauti-ful courtyard of the Cancelleria combines the Florentinesystem of arches on columns with the Roman system of superposed arcadesindependent of thecourt wall. In 1506Bramante began… … FIG. 166.—FACADE OK THE GIRAUD PALACE, ROME. ecuted the greaterBelvedere court (afterward divided in two by the Libraryand the Braccio Nuovo), the lesser octagonal court of theBelvedere, and the court of San Damaso, with its arcadesafterw^ard frescoed by Raphael and his school. Besidesthese, the…

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