. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. We have not space to enumerate or criticise thecluu-ches with which Rome abounds. St. Carlo on the Corse, by Onorio Lunghi, is a fineexample of them, and gives a fair notion of the general distribution we have descril) of a later date, especially those by IJorromini, may be considered as indices rerumvitiini/arwii in architecture ; and though we are, perhaps, from the cupidity of upholsterersand house decorators, likely to be doomed to sit i
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. We have not space to enumerate or criticise thecluu-ches with which Rome abounds. St. Carlo on the Corse, by Onorio Lunghi, is a fineexample of them, and gives a fair notion of the general distribution we have descril) of a later date, especially those by IJorromini, may be considered as indices rerumvitiini/arwii in architecture ; and though we are, perhaps, from the cupidity of upholsterersand house decorators, likely to be doomed to sit in rooms stuffed with the absurdities ofthe taste jirevalent in the time of Louis X\., we can hardly conceive it necessary in thesedays to recommend the students abhorrence of such freaks of plan and elevation as are tobe found in the church of St. Carlo alle cjuattro Fontane, by that architect. 3-13. The palaces of Rome are among tlie finest architectural works in Europe; and ofthose in Rome, as we have before observed, none ecjuals the Farnese, whose facade isgiven in Jiff. 169. Ce vaste palais Farnese, qui a tout prendre, pour la grandeur. ESK PALACU. de la masse, la regularite de son ensemble, et rexcellence de son architecture, a toiiujus(|uiei, dans roiiinion des artistes, le premier rang entre tons les palais (juon renomme,is the general description of it by De Quincy, ui)on whom we have drawn largely, and mustcontinue to do so. This edifice, by San Galio, forms a quadrangle of 256 ft. by 185 is constructed of l)rick, with the exception of the dressings of the doors and windows,tlie (juoins of the fronts, and the entablature and loggia in the Strada Giulia, which are oftravertine stone. Of the same stone, beautifully wrought, is the interior of the building consists of three stories, including that on the ground, which, in the elevationsor fa9ados, are sejiarated by impost cornices. The only break in its symmetry and sim-plicity occurs in the loggia, jilac
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