A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . ^. Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence. The interior without the statues and jrronps ; the Palazzio Vecchio beyond of arches of large span (12 and 15feet) springing from the entablatures of coupledDoric Inlumiis. LOGGIA DEI LANZI. At Florence; avery large open portico having three great archesfronting the northeast and the Piazza dellaSignoria, and one looking to the southeastand fronting on the court of the Uffizi. The783 LOGGIA DI S. PAOLO name signifies the portico of the common oiunio
A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . ^. Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence. The interior without the statues and jrronps ; the Palazzio Vecchio beyond of arches of large span (12 and 15feet) springing from the entablatures of coupledDoric Inlumiis. LOGGIA DEI LANZI. At Florence; avery large open portico having three great archesfronting the northeast and the Piazza dellaSignoria, and one looking to the southeastand fronting on the court of the Uffizi. The783 LOGGIA DI S. PAOLO name signifies the portico of the common oiunion it is the design of AndreaOrcagna and completed soon after his death, orabout 1380. The building is the most perfectspecimen of that later round-arched meditevalstyle peculiar to Italy, and which seems to havebeen developed by a few artists who objectedto the adoption in Italy of the Gothic art of theNortli, and who were stillwholly uninfluenced by,or unconscious of, tlieneoclassic feeling amongscholars which was soonto lead to the classicalRenaissance. (See Or-cagna; Talenti, Siinon
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