Identifier: architectureofre1909ande (find matches)
Title: The architecture of the renaissance in Italy : a general view for the use of students and others
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Anderson, William J. (William James), 1864-1900
Subjects: Architecture, Renaissance Architecture
Publisher: London, B. T. Batsford
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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is longer than Rochesterand Glasgow Cathedrals placed end to end. The ultimatevictory of the Latin cross has deprived all spectators within aquarter of a mile to the east of their view of the dome. To seeit close at hand we must go round the flank of the building,whence the effect is splendid (Plate 47), as it is also from anydistant point of view. It may be surpassed in grace of exterioraspect by St. Pauls, in London, with its unbroken entablature,relatively higher colonnade, and attic ; but without St. Peterthere had been no St. Paul. The brackets designed by Michel-angelo to unite the coupled columns and entablature with theattic were never carried out, and do not seem to be required. Viewing the culminating period in Rome as a whole, weobserve that, like all art of the highest attainment, it is charac-terised by the attention given to proportion and design in themass, the details being made strictly subordinate to the toutensemble kept pre-eminently in view. A feeling for what may
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