. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. mples which follow there be two which are composedwith semicircular-headed centres, we do not approve of the general use of examples de-signed on such principles, and would advise the student rather to study the composition olthe Venetian window, when required, as in Jip. 968.,which we do not present as one of beauty, but ratherof propriety, where the want of light to the apartmentrenders a Venetian window expedient. The methodof making sashes, shut
. An encyclopaedia of architecture, historical, theoretical, & practical. New ed., rev., portions rewritten, and with additions by Wyatt Papworth. mples which follow there be two which are composedwith semicircular-headed centres, we do not approve of the general use of examples de-signed on such principles, and would advise the student rather to study the composition olthe Venetian window, when required, as in Jip. 968.,which we do not present as one of beauty, but ratherof propriety, where the want of light to the apartmentrenders a Venetian window expedient. The methodof making sashes, shutters, and the other accessories ofwindows has been described in a previous section ; wetherefore proceed to offer a few of the most celebratedexamples of windows. It is not necessary, after theinvestigation relative to the voids and solids of doors,to pursue the inquiry into the relative proportions ofwindows as respects that part of the subject. Theyare, in a measure, in regard to windows, subject tothe same principles, and this, by trial, will be immedi-ately apparent to the student; and we therefore shallTjot stop for such Chap. I. WINDOWS. 919 2757. Fie/. 9G9. is after the lower story of windows at St. Piiters at Rome, by MichaelAngelo, and is rather less than the double square in height. Tiie architrave is one seventh
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