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Identifier: andreapalladioh00flet (find matches)
Title: Andrea Palladio, his life and works
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Fletcher, Banister, Sir, 1866-1953
Subjects: Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580
Publisher: London, G. Bell and Sons
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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re is 65 feet10 inches, and in this semi-elliptical vault are semicirculararches lighting the nave. Arches of this form are alsoplaced lower in the chapel aisle walls in order to light theseportions. The facade has a main order of Composite columns, ex-pressing the interior nave ; the inner ones are half columns,the angle ones are pilasters loj diameters high, and supportan entablature one-fifth of the column in height, over whichis a pediment. The pilasters throughout are diminished,and have an entasis in the same manner as the columns.This order is raised upon a stylobate, in the height of whichis managed the principal flight of steps, which is as wideas the nave on plan. On either side of the central spacethe side chapels are designed as wings, ornamented withCorinthian pilasters springing from the same level as theprincipal order. Half columns of this same order flank thecentral door of the church and support entablature andpediment, and are also carried round the lateral facades.
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36. S. GIORGIO MAGGIORE, VENICE.PLAN.

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