. Architecture for general students. these piers are faced with rich marbles,and these on the underside of the arches are wroughtinto medallions, bas-reliefs, etc., giving an endless,variety of ornament, which is also lavishly displayedin the tribune, and is there due to Angelo. Thespandrils of the pier arches are ornamented with re-cumbent colossal statues representing the Virtues,an ornamentation rather doubtful as to its goodtaste, and still less pleasing when we know thatthese as well as the capitals of the columns are ofstucco. Indeed it is the overabundance of orna-ment which is the chie
. Architecture for general students. these piers are faced with rich marbles,and these on the underside of the arches are wroughtinto medallions, bas-reliefs, etc., giving an endless,variety of ornament, which is also lavishly displayedin the tribune, and is there due to Angelo. Thespandrils of the pier arches are ornamented with re-cumbent colossal statues representing the Virtues,an ornamentation rather doubtful as to its goodtaste, and still less pleasing when we know thatthese as well as the capitals of the columns are ofstucco. Indeed it is the overabundance of orna-ment which is the chief defect of St. Peters ; there,are too many details, so that when we have passedthe length of the nave and, standing just without thedome, have the transept, the noble square with itsmassive pendentives, and the tribune before us, —Bramantes St. Peters, rather than Madernos, — wefeel that this plastic ornament is out of place, andthat with all his greatness Michael Angelo waseither too much a sculptor or too little an CHAPTER XXII.
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