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Title: An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Gwilt, Joseph, 1784-1863 Papworth, Wyatt Angelicus Van Sandau, 1822-1894
Subjects: Architecture Architects
Publisher: London Longmans, Green
Contributing Library: Architecture Landscape Design - University of Toronto
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ar 139 ft. at its springing, at which placeits thickness is near 10 ft. exclusive of the ribs. As the inner and outer vaults are not con-centric, the interval between them increases as they rise. Where they receive the lanternthey are 10 ft. 7 in. apart. The construction of this dome proves the profundity of thearchitects knowledge as a scientific builder to have equalled his superiority as an architect. 3:56. After the death of Michael Angelo, this cupola with its lantern was rigorously ex-ecuted, upon the model he had left, by Jacopo della Iorta and Domenico Fontana. Hisintentions were religiously respected, in the completion of the fabric, until the time of PirroLigorio, whom Pius IV. deprived of his situation for attempting to swerve from the modeland substitute his o\;n work. 337. Between the foundation of the church by Bramante, and its entire compltion by Chap. II. ITALIAN. 14 1 Carlo IMuderiio, as seen injtr^s. lf>~. and 168., a century had elapsed , but during Miat contnrj
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Fig. 168, arcliitcctiiral as well as graphical and plastic fasto had undergone great changes; amithough the first was still far from the vicious point to wliicli Horromini carried it, thegreat principles of order and authority, as foiuided on the models of antiijuity, were passedaway, and no longer occupied the attention of the architect. The spirit of innovation, toooften mistaken for genius, liad made such inroads, that regularity of plan, simplicity of form. 142 HISTORY OF AllCIIlTECTURE. Hook I. mid llip liappy union of taste with common sense had altogether dis:ippcared. The pari«,>ldod to tlic edifice by Maderno appears in tiie plan in a darker tint, by which it is seentliat he added three arcades to the nave, in wliich the svne ordonnance is continued. Sf.S. Respecting the alteration in, or rather addition to the plan, it :s, and is likely toijoiitinue, a moot point, whether this chaiigi^ by Maderno has injured the eflect of thecluircli. There are, says De Quincy, in tlie m

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