A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . equalheight. ISOMETRIC: ISOMETRICAL PER-SPECTIVE;—PROJECTION. (See underProjection.) ISTRIA, ARCHITECTURE OF. That ofIstria, a jieninsula at tiie head of the AdriaticSea, forming jiart of the province of the coast-land (Kiisterdand) of the Austrian contains two important towns, Parenso andPola, and also the town of Rovigno. At Polathere are Roman Imperial remains of extraordi-nary interest, though the tow-n is modern, andthe ruins are cared for merely as curiositieswithout having received much
A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive . equalheight. ISOMETRIC: ISOMETRICAL PER-SPECTIVE;—PROJECTION. (See underProjection.) ISTRIA, ARCHITECTURE OF. That ofIstria, a jieninsula at tiie head of the AdriaticSea, forming jiart of the province of the coast-land (Kiisterdand) of the Austrian contains two important towns, Parenso andPola, and also the town of Rovigno. At Polathere are Roman Imperial remains of extraordi-nary interest, though the tow-n is modern, andthe ruins are cared for merely as curiositieswithout having received much close investiga-tion. The amphitheatre has its exterior in ad-mirable j5reservation. Much of the boundingwall remains, and if the seats and the innerstructuie have disappeared, this very fiiet pointsto a most unusual jiecidiarity in the structiueof the building, to which full attention is calledin book mentioned below. Beamconstruction of wood replaces, to a certain ex-tent at least, the vaulting of Italy and Gaul,and the stone seats were carried upon PLATE XIX. ITALY, AlitTUTIXTriil-: tiK. PLATE I Florence, Loggia dei Lanzi, tlie gallery on the for the southwest side of the Piazza della Signoria. This Gothic, liuildiiig is the type of that exquisite rouiid-arclied It is on medii-eval style of which the Italians might have 70 an earlier and moi-e original Renaissance but overmastering influence of the northernThe building was completed about very large scale, with a total height of ITALIAN ARCHITECTURE The theatre has ahnost ?wholly disa]i]) city waUs can be traced, and there are twoRoman temples, one of which is almost perfectand is a beautifid Corinthian building of thetime of Augustus. The celebrated memorialarch of the Sergii has but a single archway,and is not elaborate in design or in sculptureddecoration. Three of the ancient gateways aretraceable, of which one, the Porta Gemina, ordouble gateway, ha-s some value. The catii
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