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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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y under-stood as different professions. The third of his four books dealswith roads, bridges, public squares, and basilicas. And, likePeruzzi, with whom he had much in common, his attention wasat one time directed to stage accessories and to theatre construc-tion. Instead, however, of any attempted use of the movablescenes already used by Peruzzi, we have in his Teatro Olimpicoat Vicenza (Plate 63), a permanent scenic background, and anarrangement conforming in nearly every respect to the ancientGreek theatre model. Not to speak of the triumphal arch, theelliptical form of the auditorium, and other matters of detail,the principal point of departure from the Greek precedent is themost interesting feature of the w^hole theatre. For only inRenaissance times could the idea have suggested itself of aconstruction of three streets, with palaces and dw^ellings on eachside built in perspective, i.e., reduced in size as they recededfrom the front, according to the rules of perspective, so as to
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THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL. 155 seem from certain points of view of great length. They hadthis advantage over painted representations, that actors couldenter and approach by means of the street or part of it, howevermuch they might mar the illusion by the different scale ofheights. This theatre was not completed until after Palladiosdeath, and inaugurated in 1584 by a performance ofOedipusthe King, the masterpiece of the Greek Sophocles. The traveller befoie leaving this quiet and colourless town

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