The course and current of architecture; being an historical account of the origin, successive and simultaneous development, relations, periods, and characteristics of its various known styles (1863)
97 OF ARCHITECTURE. ITALIAN RENAISSANCE. … this poetic and artistic land naturally became the scene of its first revival in Europe. This event took place in the thirteenth century — an earlier period than might be thought propitious to that breadth of mind and purity of taste necessary to a perception and ap¬ preciation of the claims of the…
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