. How to judge architecture : a popular guide to the appreciation of buildings. made to use the classical orders inwholly new work. This was the Chapel ofthe Pazzi, attached to the church of SantaCroce, in Florence, and the exterior of thisis shown in Plate XLIII as far as it is pos-sible to obtain an intelligible photograph ofits more important parts. It is a smallthing ; but assuredly it is marvellous to see,because of the boldness required on thepart of its designer. If we try to imaginethe habit of mind of a man who had neverseen anything built in Greco-Roman ordersin any form, or designed
. How to judge architecture : a popular guide to the appreciation of buildings. made to use the classical orders inwholly new work. This was the Chapel ofthe Pazzi, attached to the church of SantaCroce, in Florence, and the exterior of thisis shown in Plate XLIII as far as it is pos-sible to obtain an intelligible photograph ofits more important parts. It is a smallthing ; but assuredly it is marvellous to see,because of the boldness required on thepart of its designer. If we try to imaginethe habit of mind of a man who had neverseen anything built in Greco-Roman ordersin any form, or designed in the Greco-Ro-man spirit, who knew buildings of classicaldesign only as fragmentary ruins and whohimself had carried out many designs ofhis own in a spirit, not Gothic indeed, butassuredly not classic, and who then, at theage of fifty-five, in a time when life wasshorter and began earlier than now, under-took and carried out such a composition asthis, there will indeed seem cause for sur-prised admiration. There is a modernItalian feeling in the little rondels which[134].
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