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Villas of Florence and Tuscany (1922)

Eberlein, Harold Donaldson · Philadelphia, London : J. B. Lippincott Company · leaf 42

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ther particular in which the skill of the stone carverfound opportunity was the embellishment of the capitals forthe columns of the loggias and the corbels from which sprangthe pendentives of the vaulting. Both capitals and corbelswere often of elaborate design. Occasionally we findmedallions of… … OMPARING the villas of the four-teenth and fifteenth centuries, on theone hand, with those of the sixteenth,on the other, we find there is a per-ceptible dififercnce. There is a differ-ence in the spirit that underlies theirconception. There is also a difference,which it requires no very critical…

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