Identifier: historyofarchit02cumm (find matches)
Title: A history of architecture in Italy from the time of Constantine to the dawn of the renaissance
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Cummings, Charles Amos, 1833-1905
Subjects: Architecture
Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin and company
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Fig. 441. Fano. Palazzo della Ragione. 288 ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY

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Fig. 442. Gubbio. Palazzo dei Consoli. ...Marino Faliero. Under these architects, it appears, the arcades of the two principal facades were built. Whether these arcades were originally intended to support the upper wall which they now carry, or whether, as has been contended, that wall was brought forward at a later period in order to enlarge the great hall in the upper story, is uncertain. Let us hope, for the credit of their architects, that the latter guess is the correct one. For the extreme pictorial beauty of the building can scarcely atone for the reckless construction, which defies reason and common sense, and which resulted naturally indangerous settlements, both vertical and lateral, requiring tie-rods, both longitudinal and transverse, throughout the entire length of the facades, the walling up of arches in the lower arcade, and finally, within the last twenty years, the practical rebuilding of large portions of the arcades in two stories. The building is too familiar to require a description...

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At Gubbio the Palazzo dei Consoli is a much higher building, with four stages, the first of high narrow open pointed arches, the others with the usual two - light windows and the arched corbel-table and battlements, with a slender angle tower similar to that of the Bargello at Florence, rising from an angle of the building. A later addition on one end has an open arched loggia in the upper stage. (Fig. 442.)

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