An Encyclopaedia of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, & PracticalLongmans, Green, and Company, 1891 - 1443 pages |
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... architect's studies ; and in the other , he trusts that matured experience has enabled him to treat the subject in a form likely to be more extensively useful than that of treading in his former steps . The sciences of which an architect ...
... architect's studies ; and in the other , he trusts that matured experience has enabled him to treat the subject in a form likely to be more extensively useful than that of treading in his former steps . The sciences of which an architect ...
Page 135
... architect flourishing even half a century later , though under that category they do him honour , but with the eye of an artist of his own day , and we shall then find our veneration for his memory cannot be too strongly expressed . In ...
... architect flourishing even half a century later , though under that category they do him honour , but with the eye of an artist of his own day , and we shall then find our veneration for his memory cannot be too strongly expressed . In ...
Page 137
... architects , though there is in it much to condemn . The details , however , and proportions of the orders used in it by Ammanati , are very beautiful . This architect died in 1586 , at the age of seventy - five . He was a pupil of ...
... architects , though there is in it much to condemn . The details , however , and proportions of the orders used in it by Ammanati , are very beautiful . This architect died in 1586 , at the age of seventy - five . He was a pupil of ...
Page 138
... architect of the Strozzi palace , Raffaelle Sanzio , Benedetto da Majano , Baccio d'Agnolo , Baccio Bandinelli , Buontalenti , Ammanati , and others : it extends from a . d . 1400 to A. D. 1600 . The works of Michael Angelo , though a ...
... architect of the Strozzi palace , Raffaelle Sanzio , Benedetto da Majano , Baccio d'Agnolo , Baccio Bandinelli , Buontalenti , Ammanati , and others : it extends from a . d . 1400 to A. D. 1600 . The works of Michael Angelo , though a ...
Page 139
... architects had the good sense to see that the orders of architecture placed against the walls of a building where the use was not required by the interior distribution was a tasteless and useless application of them . The architect of ...
... architects had the good sense to see that the orders of architecture placed against the walls of a building where the use was not required by the interior distribution was a tasteless and useless application of them . The architect of ...
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