. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. f uniting by a grand cupola the four arms of theDuomo at Florence. During his residence he settled in his mind the of theorders of architecture from tlie classic examples which the city alforded, and studied thescience of construction as practised by the ancients ; from them he learnt that perfectaccordance which always exists between what is useful and what is beautiful, l)oth ofwhich are reciprorally subordinate to each other. Here he
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. f uniting by a grand cupola the four arms of theDuomo at Florence. During his residence he settled in his mind the of theorders of architecture from tlie classic examples which the city alforded, and studied thescience of construction as practised by the ancients ; from them he learnt that perfectaccordance which always exists between what is useful and what is beautiful, l)oth ofwhich are reciprorally subordinate to each other. Here he discovered the jirinciples ofthat nice , equally requisite for the beauty no less than lor the solidity ofan edilice. He returned to Florence in 1407. In this year the citizens convokedan assembly of architects and engineers to deliberate upon somo plan for finishingthe Duomo. To this assembly Brunelleschi was invited, and gave his advice for raisingthe base drum or atic story upon which the cupola should be placed. It is not im-portant here to detail the jealousies of rivals which impeded his project; nor, when the II. AND SECTION OP SANTA MARIA DEL PIORB. commission was at length confided to him, the disgraceful assignment to him of LorenzoGhiherti as a colleague, whose incapacity for such a task our architect soon made it to say, that hefore his death he had the satisfaction to see the cupola finished,witli the exception of tlie exterior of tlie drum under the cupola ; for whose decoration, aswell as for tlie lantern with which he proposed to crown the edifice, he left designs, which,however, were lost. One of the directions he left on his death particularly insisted uponthe necessity of following the model he had prepared for the lantern, and that it was es-sential that it should he constructed of large blocks of marble so as to prevent the cupolafrom opening; an advice which experience has since proved in other cases to be far
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