. Easy steps in architecture and architectural drawing .. . Fig. 80. Q. Describe the Italian style. A. The Italian, which embraces the Florentine,modem Roman and Venetian schools, may be consideredas an adaptation of the Greek and Roman orders.(Figs. 76, 77, 78 and 79.) Q. What are the chief features of the Florentinestyle ? A. The Florentine, a variety of the Italian style, ischaracterized by the absence of columns on the* outsideand by massive cornices with which the buildings arecrowned. This style has rather a heavy appearance. EASY LESSONS IN ARCHITECTURE 79 The Pandolfini Palace, Fig. 80
. Easy steps in architecture and architectural drawing .. . Fig. 80. Q. Describe the Italian style. A. The Italian, which embraces the Florentine,modem Roman and Venetian schools, may be consideredas an adaptation of the Greek and Roman orders.(Figs. 76, 77, 78 and 79.) Q. What are the chief features of the Florentinestyle ? A. The Florentine, a variety of the Italian style, ischaracterized by the absence of columns on the* outsideand by massive cornices with which the buildings arecrowned. This style has rather a heavy appearance. EASY LESSONS IN ARCHITECTURE 79 The Pandolfini Palace, Fig. 80, at Florence is a verygood example. Q. Describe the chief features of the modern Romanstyle. A. The buildings of this style present a most im-posing appearance, which is not marred by the toogreat severity of the Florentine school, and the use ofcolumns in the facades renders them more light andpleasing. The Farnese Palace at Rome, Fig. 81, is abeautiful example of this style. The churches at Rome. Fig. 81. built in this style are characterized by an excessiveamount of ornament. (See also Fig. 82.) Q. What special feature is introduced in the styleknown as the Venetian? A. The use of rustic work for the basement andground floors, which consist in the front edges of thestones being beveled or molded, so that there is a spaceof one and a half inches or two inches round each stoneon the face. The Pompeii Palace, Fig. 82, at Verona,and the Church of St. Mark at Venice are beautifulspecimens of this style. Q. What is a Mezzanine? 80 EASY LESSONS IN ARCHITECTURE A. A low intermediate story which is sometimesmade in the Italian styles, to run between two storiesof greater height. Q. Give the names of two celebrated architects whointroduced the Italian style into England with greatsuccess, with examples of their works. A. Inigo Jones, who designed the banqueting houseat Whitehall, and Sir Christopher Wren, who de-signed St. Pauls Cathedral, St. Stephens Walbrook,
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