Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . of all Europe to the cityo[ the Doges. Bologna and Genoa have each built in the suburbs a magnificent CampoSanto, or cemetery, with chapels, colonnades, and other accessories of archi-tectural value; in Milan and Naples there are lofty glass-covered arcadesthrough the centre o\ a block and connec
Triumphs and wonders of the 19th century, the true mirror of a phenomenal era, a volume of original, entertaining and instructive historic and descriptive writings, showing the many and marvellous achievements which distinguish an hundred years of material, intellectual, social and moral progress .. . of all Europe to the cityo[ the Doges. Bologna and Genoa have each built in the suburbs a magnificent CampoSanto, or cemetery, with chapels, colonnades, and other accessories of archi-tectural value; in Milan and Naples there are lofty glass-covered arcadesthrough the centre o\ a block and connecting with cross streets, and the semi-circular colonnades of St. Francesco di Paolo, at Naples, surround a piazzawhich is the great public resort of summer evenings. During the reign of King George a new Athens has sprung up alongside ofand overlapping the old city; although the nation is not wealthy, the indi-vidual bequests of certain Greeks have given her the Museum, University,and Academy, each of strict classic design, and a hospital of Byzantine de-sign. Under the sunny skies of Greece those buildings certainly appearto much greater advantage than if in a more northern atmosphere, and theirstatuary and polychromy show the value of these accessories to such archi-tecture in this PROGRESS OF THE CENTURY IN ARCHITECTURE 177 Abdul Aziz, the predecessor of the present Sultan of Turkey, had so greata fondness for building that his extravagance in this respect was one of thecauses which led to his downfall. The Dolma Bagtche palace, erected directlyupon the shores of the Bosphorus from the designs of Balzan, an Armenianarchitect, suggests Spanish work of the sixteenth century. In Constantinopleand at Therapia, — a summer resort at the northern end of the Bosphorus, —
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