. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. square, with its cheerful music by day and night, and the assem-blage of villagers around its basin. In Germany and France thefountains were often more or less ambitious, and a few of them stillremain. The lovely Schonbrunnen at Nuremberg will at once occurto the reader. Between this and the typical Italian fountain thereis all the difference between the Gothic and the Classic architecture— between the North and the South. The one is slender and aspir-ing, with stage above stage of gradually dimin
. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. square, with its cheerful music by day and night, and the assem-blage of villagers around its basin. In Germany and France thefountains were often more or less ambitious, and a few of them stillremain. The lovely Schonbrunnen at Nuremberg will at once occurto the reader. Between this and the typical Italian fountain thereis all the difference between the Gothic and the Classic architecture— between the North and the South. The one is slender and aspir-ing, with stage above stage of gradually diminishing arcades, withgables and pinnacles, and a tapering spire. The other is broad, low,and spreading, of fair and precious materials, but of simplest con-struction, and decorated with the most delicate and refined Italiansculpture. The fountain which represents in its highest charm this charac-teristic devotion of the fine Italian genius to the needs of commonlife is that which stands in the great square of Perugia — the FonteMaggiore. (Fig. 457.) It was begun in 1277 as a portion of the. Fig. 458. Siena. Foiite Gaia. CIVIL ARCHITECTURE 307 ^^^N\rv.
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