. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. palaces of Siena, though inthese the opening was oftener of three lights than of two. In theearlier palaces of the Renaissance we may see the same type of win-dow appearing with but slight modification. In the third story the windows are variousin design and posi-tion, but in the mainfagade of the newerportion is a symmet-rical range of broadpointed and cuspedopenings wall is finishedwith a strong archedcorbel - table andsquare slender tower nomore than eighteenfeet squ
. A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance. palaces of Siena, though inthese the opening was oftener of three lights than of two. In theearlier palaces of the Renaissance we may see the same type of win-dow appearing with but slight modification. In the third story the windows are variousin design and posi-tion, but in the mainfagade of the newerportion is a symmet-rical range of broadpointed and cuspedopenings wall is finishedwith a strong archedcorbel - table andsquare slender tower nomore than eighteenfeet square rises froman angle of the build-ing to the height ofone hundred andseventy feet withoutother feature than aplain round arch ineach face of the bel-fry. (Fig. 429.) The finest portionof the Bargello is theinterior court, anoblique quadrangleof about sixty - fivefeet, surrounded on Fig. 428. Plau of the Bargello. ^^^^^ ^^^^S by a broad vaulted gallerywith three arches on each side, rather less than a semicircle, supportedon strong octagonal piers with admirable foliated capitals and boldly. ft t 1 I I V I I I I CIVIL ARCHITECTURE 275 moulded bases. In its grand scale, its vigor and simplicity of design,and its beauty of detail, this arcade is a characteristic example of thebest civil architectureof Florence in its bestdays. Above it, onone side of the court,the open arcade andgallery are repeated,but with six archesinstead of three, thetreatment similar tothat below. Thisgallery is reachedfrom the court by astraight staircase ofstone interrupted atmid-height by a land-ing with a massivestone gateway with aheavy lintel. () Of the apartmentsof this interesting pal-ace, which is now mostworthily occupied bya national museumof antiquities of sur-passing value, there remains a fine hall on the principal floor measur-ing fifty-two by eighty-five feet, and sixty feet high, vaulted in largesquare bays.^ Before the end of the thirteenth century the government ofFlorence had go
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